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Re: I'm going to give up on this...

From	Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: I'm going to give up on this...
Date	2024-11-04 21:30 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 03/11/2024 10:46, Mad Hamish wrote:
> Generally a minor loss in speed is much less important than people
> being able to tell what's actually happening

Requirement one: The code works correctly.
Requirement two: Your fellow workers can understand why
Requirement three: It's fast.

There are cases where high speed is a requirement, but in my experience 
they were rare. And usually benchmarks ;)

But there's no point in having a program that is really really fast, but 
produces the wrong answer.

When under some rare circumstances your code does something bad happens 
your fellow worker might have to fix it, which is why #2.

Andy

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I'm going to give up on this... Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-31 10:21 +0000
  Re: I'm going to give up on this... Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-31 12:44 +0200
    Re: I'm going to give up on this... Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-10-31 16:43 +0000
      Re: I'm going to give up on this... Mad Hamish <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> - 2024-11-03 21:46 +1100
        Re: I'm going to give up on this... Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-04 21:30 +0000
      Re: I'm going to give up on this... Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-11-03 13:41 +0200
        Re: I'm going to give up on this... Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-04 21:24 +0000
  Re: I'm going to give up on this... Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2024-10-31 07:47 -0400

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