Programming As If Performance Mattered

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday May 5, 2004 @04:38PM from the my-programming-can-reverse-time dept.

Junks Jerzey writes "Saw the essay 'Programming as if Performance Mattered', by James Hague, mentioned at the Lambda the Ultimate programming language weblog. This is the first modern and sensible spin on how optimization has changed over the years. The big 'gotcha' in the middle caught me by surprise. An inspiring read." Hague begins: "Are particular performance problems perennial? Can we never escape them? This essay is an attempt to look at things from a different point of view, to put performance into proper perspective."

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Wow, dumb article by iammaxus · 2004-05-06 10:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This has to be one of the crappiest articles in the developers section, ever. The author has absolutley no explanation of what is "fast enough". He just says, wow 66/second, sounds fast. Guess performance doesnt matter. That is retarded. He never compares it to a non-interpreted, more performance oriented language, so how can he say its fast? There are many applications where i wish image decoding happened faster, so you can't just assume its fast enough.