Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:27111 comp.lang.misc:4571 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: A note for those not consumed by efficiency worries Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 90 23:24:41 GMT References: <1990Mar21.061420.9862@athena.mit.edu> <1990Mar21.163413.10711@aqdata.uucp> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 > 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. -- _--_|\ `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ 'U` \_.--._/ v