7 Larry Wall Quotes on Optimization

Larry Wall quotes on optimization

111. It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

117. As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

178. It's hard to tune heavily tuned code. :-)

199. Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

234. And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...

285. In computer science, it is said that premature optimization is the root of all evil.

315. Optimizations always bust things, because all optimizations are, in the long haul, a form of cheating, and cheaters eventually get caught.