John Ousterhout personal blog
John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings
Programmers tend to worry too much and too soon about performance. Many college-level Computer Science classes focus on fancy algorithms to improve performance, but in real life performance rarely matters. Most real-world programs run plenty fast enough on today's machines without any particular attention to…
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| Aug 17, 2018 | John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings by blacksqr | 198 | 63 |
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