On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Friday 18 February 2005 10:39 am, Frank Wiles wrote:
If you're really worried about the couple of milliseconds difference you are spending your time worrying about the wrong things.
The cost/time difference of developing an application in C vs the speed benefit just doesn't make sense. Save yourself 75% of the development time and put $20 more processor in your box. ;)
The problem is when all of the developers on a complex system of software take that same attitude, and you end up with massive code bloat. There is a place for optimization and efficiency in all applications.
That place is after all the functionality you want in a release is implemented and working properly. Then you go back and look for ways to make it faster. People who start optimizing too soon usually spend way too much time getting 2 cycles out of a loop and not enough on the big picture.
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