Efficient coding considered harmful?

[Jonathan Leech]

In article <273 at tijc02.UUCP> pjs269 at tijc02.UUCP (Paul Schmidt	     ) writes:
> Using prof(1) under UNIX I have always been suprised at where the
> time is spent for a given program.  And using this shows which
> routines need to be optimized.  Using a benchmark it was easy to see
> that only 10% of the routines were run 90% of the time.

    There are certainly counterexamples. I have occasionally profiled
the text editor I maintain. No one procedure took more than 3% of
execution time.
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