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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

From Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?
Date 2011-02-05 08:58 -0500
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Mike Schilling wrote:
>>> Optimization and micro-optimization are not synonyms.

"Ken Wesson" wrote:
>> No; the latter is a special case of the former.

Mike Schilling wrote:
> The latter is quite often the direct opposite of the former.

All one needs to do is consider the definitions of the terms, at least if one 
is speaking to one who is reasonable.  "Optimization" is performance 
improvement of a program or system.  "Micro-optimization" is the attempt to 
optimize tiny portions of the program or system without regard for the overall 
effect.

As for the one whom you quoted, I can't see their post since I plonked them 
long since, but I shall give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they 
provided logic and reason to support their claim and didn't just make the one 
bald and incorrect statement.

Hopefully by now they realize that just because the word "optimization" is in 
both terms that that doesn't imply any degree of synonymity.  The word 
"micro-optimization" was coined specifically to contrast it with actual 
optimization and was never anything other than a condemnatory term.

-- 
Lew
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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 22:30 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-07 19:16 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 18:26 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-06 11:15 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 04:15 +0100
      Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2011-02-06 20:53 -0800
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-05 07:15 +0100
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 09:25 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-05 08:58 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-05 04:48 +0100
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2011-02-04 21:46 -0800

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