Obligatory Abrash quote: "In the long run, programs will be bigger and slower yet, but computers will be so fast and will have so much memory that no one will care." [1] I don't agree 100%, but he has a point. I'll say that resources are cheap enough they aren't always worth optimizing. On the other hand, it's easy to get caught on the wrong side of that. Always painful to discover that someone else's "plenty to spare" is your "just a bit short".
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Obligatory Abrash quote: "In the long run, programs will be bigger and slower yet, but computers will be so fast and will have so much memory that no one will care." [1] I don't agree 100%, but he has a point. I'll say that resources are cheap enough they aren't always worth optimizing. On the other hand, it's easy to get caught on the wrong side of that. Always painful to discover that someone else's "plenty to spare" is your "just a bit short".
[1] http://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/ch39/39-01.html