Performing the Optimizations

The section Analyzing Target Areas helped you determine which software parts of a plagued system to optimize and whom to select for doing the optimizations. This section examines actual implementation issues of performing those optimizations. As such, it is a detailed addition to step 3 in our optimization process, Performing the Design and Implementation of the (selected) Optimizations. This section still has a theoretical focus. It marks the end of the first part of this book. The second part of the book focuses more on programming examples of implementation issues.

After you select a portion of a program to optimize, and before you actually change program code, it is necessary to decide whether to rewrite the existing ...

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