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From: meta@pobox.com (mathew)
Subject: Re: [TADS] learning to program more efficiently
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Carl Muckenhoupt <carl@wurb.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 03:34:35 GMT, meta@pobox.com (mathew) wrote:
>
> >You should probably say what you mean by "efficient".  Do you mean:
> >
> >1. Quicker to write,
> >2. Easier to maintain,
> >3. Uses as little memory as possible,
> >4. Faster at run time, or
> >5. Source code is as simple as possible?
> >
> >Generally any piece of code can only be optimized for one of the above.
>
> I dunno - it seems to me that 2 and 5 are pretty much the same thing.

Yeah, for 5 I meant "compact", but it was late at night.


mathew
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