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

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On 7/18/2016 5:00 PM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> 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..

Question: how large a portion of the application did you have to
change to achieve that? Most likely less than 1%.

Optimization is something you do when you:
- have noticed a real problem due to bad performance
- have identified the specific cause of the bad performance

Arne

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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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