Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:58:50 -0500 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <4d4ca055$0$23765$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d4cc253$1@news.x-privat.org><4d4cc43d$0$23765$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d4cc888$1@news.x-privat.org> <4d4ceaf3$1@news.x-privat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net iBOBz8EFW5Xo/n7cmTlY4/meSzmYOiX14J3LEDQbMh1ZjDvbxK8jXxTw5GCBiEfivLmQOZ463/JOusVnyduL8Q== NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:58:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:Av8Cbxlr9j8DJP1a35DYzN2t/xE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="3VoQ1peEAqOLUGKHDgRNiHY470k4Kk1+Gs+4Oz7ohPnOa7sjCBgcsp0Qs8aboeGUPXkg/evZWSylsFkZNuyd6l+2saXHEpV/OM0G9tpYk+Qfy/irsfKDGaBSX2UF6tjy"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:26134 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 Ceci n'est pas une fenêtre. .___________. |###] | [###| |##/ | *\##| |#/ * | \#| |#----|----#| || | * || |o * | o| |_____|_____| |===========|