Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.

The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the…

Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, a…

Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as gre…

To add speed, add lightness.

But what about speed?

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.