A note for those not consumed by efficiency worries

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.uu.net
Thu Mar 22 09:24:41 AEST 1990


> Agreed.  I often see programmers who spend a lot of time trying to
> speed up code that isn't causing a slowdown, and in fact there isn't
> a slowdown in the first place.  Heck, I know people who don't want
> to use shell scripts becasue they are slower than C...

Look at C News. It uses shell scripts extensively, but where it counts
it's orders of magnitude faster than B News.

Code smarter, not just faster.
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