Re: sparse components

I'm giving away my punchline here, but the paper in which Knuth says (paraphrasing) "97% of the time it's not worth optimizing something for the sake of optimizations", he's in the middle of a paper about the performance impact of GOTO. He isn't saying write code like an idiot because the profiler will save you. (Which is how most people seem to interpret it.)

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Fabian
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [Sweng-Gamedev] sparse components

I've read it and hope I understood it. http://coc.dev77.com/2010/03/quote-and-rethink.html
On 2 June 2010 22:36, Mat Noguchi <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
"People who haven't read the Knuth paper where he is purported to say 'premature optimization is the root of all evil' considered harmful".

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