Timeline for Did the gradual shift in methodology of writing code affect system performance? And Should I care?
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| Mar 4, 2014 at 14:20 | comment | added | old_timer | The compiler sure, assuming the programmer has told the compiler to optimize the compilers generally default to not optimizing (at the command line the IDE may have a different default if used). But the programmer may not know enough to optimize the size of the function and with as many targets where does it get futile? Hand tuning performance has a tendency to have a negative effect on readability, and maintainability in particular, testability can go either way. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 12:06 | comment | added | svick | “so you have to find your comfort level which can and will vary for each individual programmer” I think the level of optimization should be decided by the performance requirements of each piece of code, not by what each programmer likes. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 5:48 | history | answered | old_timer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |