[Courses] C Programming For Absolute Beginners, Lesson 5A: All About Functions, Part 2

[Jacinta Richardson]

On 04/04/12 12:40, Akkana Peck wrote:
>>    1. The first rule of Optimization Club is, you do not Optimize.
>>    2. The second rule of Optimization Club is, you do not Optimize without
>>       measuring.
>>    3. If your code doesn't do what you want it to do, you have no business
>>       optimizing it.
>>    4. If your app is running faster than the underlying transport protocol, the
>>       optimization is over.
>>    5. One factor at a time.
>>    6. Testing will go on as long as it has to.
>>    7. If this is your first night at Optimization Club, you have to write a test
>>       case.
> Love it! And this all applies no matter what language you're using.
> We talk about it more in the C world, but if you find yourself
> writing Python or Perl or Ruby and wanting to optimize something
> before you even have the code working ... think of Optimization Club.

To those who asked, I didn't create this list, I just borrowed it (with 
permission) from Petdance's excellent post over here:

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=962631


so if you want to link to it, there's a place.

     J