Re: Pointers For Newbies, Reminders For Oldies

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Nathan Rixham wrote:
> Daniel Egeberg wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 18:13, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:08, Daniel Egeberg <degeberg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> There is virtually no difference nowadays. It's a long time since
>>>> anything like that has mattered.
>>>    Actually, that's not true enough to be dismissive.  It depends on
>>> several factors.
>> Well, I would still say it's far too insignificant to bother with.
>>
> 
> Strangely I actually feel quite passionate about optimisation at the
> procedural code level, making sure each line of code is correct and
> optimised adds up to one big well optimised script / application.
> 
> kinda like a builder saying "cement is insignificant it's the bricks
> that matter", or a writer suggesting that punctuation doesn't matter any
> more.
> 
> If you took the above logic and used it in something like ActionScript
> where you're code could be run at 50-60 fps (often meaning methods are
> called 600-60k times a second) - little statements like that would crash
> a browser and put you out of a job.
> 
> regards :)

ps: my punctuation and grammar is pants, which is why I'm not a writer.

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