[ale] Linux kernel

[Charles Shapiro]

Well wait. As I said in the original post, "The original application took
several hours to finish.". This was a large batch billing program which ran
overnight every day. If it didn't finish before start of business the next
day, Hilarity Ensued.

-- CHS

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 8:04 PM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Charles Shapiro via Ale said on Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:20:13 -0500
>
> >Heh. Reminds me of the guy at one of my old gigs who spent several
> >weeks of coding and testing to replace all of the simple sequential
> >loop searches in a pretty big application with sorts + binary
> >searches.   The original application took several hours to finish.
> >After his optimizations, the new version took about fifteen minutes
> >less time.  **Always** profile before you optimize!
>
> Well wait. If the original took 15:03 and the the new one took 15
> minutes less, then the new one took 3 seconds, which is an astonishing
> advantage. How long did the original take?
>
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