[ale] Linux kernel

[Ben Coleman]

On 11/17/2023 2:20 PM, Charles Shapiro via Ale wrote:
> Heh. Reminds me of the guy at one of my old gigs who spent several weeks 
> of coding and testing to replace all of the simple sequential loop 
> searches in a pretty big application with sorts + binary searches.   The 
> original application took several hours to finish. After his 
> optimizations, the new version took about fifteen minutes less time. 
> **Always** profile before you optimize!

As the saying goes: "premature optimization is the root of all evil (or 
at least most of it) in programming"  - Donald Knuth

Ben
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