His biggest point is “do not optimize prematurely”. This is a sentiment I’ve heard a few times. Fred Brooks emphasizes it in Mythical Man Month, and Eric Raymond harps on it a bit in Art of Unix Programming. Another point he makes is how using “weird language syntax” like double […]
optimization
I wrote this method the other day that takes a simple PHP object, inspects it’s properties and “prunes” empty ones. I wrote this method in order to compress JSON objects by removing null properties before sending them down the wire, a big problem when using base objects or models. If […]