From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T15:30:15+09:00
Subject: Re: New Optimization idea.

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Ryan Davis wrote:

> Maybe it is just me, but I find your original code much easier to read and 
> intuitive than your second version. There is just too much wonky-thought 
> going on in the second version and it'll make it easy to get it wrong (esp if

Like any optimization, premature, it's the root of all programming evil. 
In my case profiling showed up a case where I was  starting to consume 
significant non-GC'able memory resources which were slowing the system as 
a whole.

In this case it was worth it. In general, no.



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