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Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java!

Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Date 2016-07-18 14:00 -0700
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Subject Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java!
From Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com>

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On Monday, July 18, 2016 at 2:10:07 PM UTC-4, Eric Sosman wrote:
>      3) This is not the first "efficiency" question you've asked, which
> leads me to fear that you may be well on the way to becoming an addict.
> Stop!  Stop now, while you still can!  "Efficiency" is a drug as habit-
> forming and as destructive as anything you can find in a darkened back
> alley.  If you get hooked, you'll never get clean.  Trust me, I know:
> The monkey has ridden my back for half a century despite my strenuous
> efforts to dislodge it.  Don't follow my pathway to ruin!

It depends how big the efficiency problem is and how many places it's used.  If you're saving a few seconds it may not be an issue, unless that code is called many times.
I worked for one of the largest retailers in the world and we had some major performance issues.  One program we'd get down to under an hour, the initial contractors wrote to run over 8 hours..

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Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java! Daniel Pitts <usenet@coloraura.com> - 2016-07-18 09:26 -0700
  Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java! Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 10:10 -0700
    Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java! Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-18 14:09 -0400
      Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java! Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 14:00 -0700
        Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java! Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-18 17:30 -0400
          Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java! Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 05:06 -0700
            Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java! Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-19 08:13 -0400
              Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java! Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 05:18 -0700
        Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java! Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-18 21:59 +0000
        Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-18 19:51 -0400
  Re: So I did "FizzBuzz", in Java! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-18 19:46 -0400

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