Five Truths About Code Optimization
April 21st, 2006
This, from Russ Olsen, via Mike Gunderloy, is a good summary. Making DrProject faster is one of our first goals for this summer—unfortunately, we don’t teach performance optimization to our students. (Man, I wish Jon Bentley would update Writing Efficient Programs…)
One thing I might add that I learned via DrProject: when looking for third party tools, always take a moment to run some performance tests. Moving to Kid was the right move, but it caused some performance problems that required a bit of refactoring. We hadn’t planned on that, and thus it set us back a little bit.