Entry 15, Day 51
As promised, today’s episode is going to be about low-level optimization. First, a quote.
„Premature optimization is the root of all evil”
– Donald Knuth
Yes indeed. We all love when things go faster than slower, but deadlines are tight and working, stable software with acceptable performance is better than software which is fast but unstable or not working at all. There is no point in tuning your Java computation to take 5 milliseconds instead of 50, when you are going to wait for database query that takes 5 seconds (optimize the query, maybe?). Also, in case of web application, there will be network latency of tenths or hundreds of milliseconds. Another issue is code readability. Sometime, to run faster, the code has to be more complicated and that’s always pain in the ass…
So when to optimize?
First, get to know your API. There are many small problems, that are already solved by standard Java library. And solved well, for example using Read the rest of this entry »
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