The Programmer’s Litany
August 23rd, 2005
Over the past two years I’ve hopped around from blogging tool to blogging tool, and many of my blog posts have fallen to the wayside. Pleasantly to my surprise, somebody was backing them up for me. Yay for the Internet Wayback Machine. So, Sherman, it’s time we take a trip back to…May 4, 2004 on this very blog…
With apologies to Frank Herbert:
I must not prematurely optimize. Premature optimization is the mind-killer. Premature optimization is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my desire to prematurely optimize. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the desire has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
November 28th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Hi.
Good design, who make it?
November 28th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
I did.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:05 pm
[...] We keep all of our business logic in stored procedures… for performance reasons. There is some tortured logic at work here, but that ignores that dealing with stored procs will slow down your development. Let’s have a talk about premature optimization. [...]
June 25th, 2008 at 7:02 am
[...] He didn’t say it in the article, but I’ll add my two cents: Never optimize anything (including adding low-lock techniques) until you’ve run a profiler and proven that you know where the bottleneck is. Any optimization without a profile is premature optimization. [...]