Larry Wall Quotes on Efficiency
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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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#else /* !STDSTDIO */ /* The big, slow, and stupid way */
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
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I already have too much problem with people thinking the efficiency of a perl construct is related to its length. On the other hand, I'm perfectly capable of changing my mind next week... :-)