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Real-life optimization work

Real-life optimization work

Posted Nov 8, 2005 8:17 UTC (Tue) by piman (subscriber, #8957)
In reply to: Real-life optimization work by drag
Parent article: All hail the speed demons (O'Reillynet)

> You could spend all day twiddling bits and re-aranging this or that and save maybe a half a second off a 7 second load time, were as you could spend time re-thinking out how the configuration files work and save 5 seconds off of the load time.

I'll believe that when I see a profile.

(Which, in my opinion, was rather the point of this article. Stop complaining and start profiling. That's how we'll get rid of "bloat".)


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