Timeline for How to profile before optimising for readability
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| Dec 26, 2018 at 19:11 | answer | added | Sarel Botha | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 26, 2018 at 18:20 | comment | added | candied_orange | The only valid measure: WTFs | |
| Dec 26, 2018 at 11:35 | comment | added | Marco | FYI, researchers have been trying to objectively measure code readability using eye-tracking technology and even, believe it or not, functional magnetic resonance! | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 23:13 | answer | added | Ralf Kleberhoff | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 21:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 25, 2018 at 21:02 | comment | added | user321630 | What I've often come to favor these days, and perhaps biased by my domain, is that the interfaces are clear in their purpose and usage... because I might not be able to figure out my physicist colleague's implementation any time soon, but it'd help a lot if I at least know how to use it. And testing -- which I consider vital, since I'm incapable of debugging his code unless it's a very simple error on his part for the same reasons (I just lack the domain-specific expertise). | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 20:57 | comment | added | user321630 | [...] humanly-readable way. I have a colleague who has a PhD specializing in physics and specifically fluid dynamics, and he could explain what his engine is doing in the most high-level humanly-readable pseudocode and I'd still go cross-eyed trying to figure out how it works given that I lack that level of academic expertise. | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 20:55 | comment | added | user321630 | The idea is interesting to me and don't understand the DVs, but it's a bit bizarre in my use cases. The tool might be interesting in revealing where we spend the most time, but I wouldn't necessarily draw the conclusion that such code is in need of readability improvements. Sometimes the code is just inherently unstable (as in calling for repeated changes in response to changing user-end requirements), and often that code is already some of the most straightforward and readable code there is. Sometimes the code just requires a lot of brain power even if it is expressed in the most [...] | |
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