Chapter 17. Performance Considerations
Happiness isn't anything more than having something to look forward to, and, conversely, unhappiness is borne of dread, of things you don't look forward to. The trick is in arranging things so that you have more of the former than the latter.
—H. W. Kenton
Normally, when I approach the subject of performance tuning, I attack it from the perspective of things you can do to speed up your code. People love stuff like that—often it's why they buy books like this in the first place. There are few things as satisfying as seeing a simple technique dramatically speed up your code.
It seems these days that everyone's in a hurry. We all want fast-food-style technology tidbits as quickly as we can get them. Never ...
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