A good tip

[Jeff Ratliff]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 05:54:24AM -0700, Timothy Payne wrote:
> 
> Re: Advantages of SRPM over RPM
> 
> <snip><snip>
> >  Blind optimization 
> > is a bad investment.
> > 
[top-posting rearranged]
> I'm going to put this on a post it note on my monitor, hopefully it will
> keep me from thrashing around first before reading. Thanks.
> 
There's also :
	"Premature optimization is a root of all evil." 
Popularized by Donald Knuth, author of "The Art of Computer 
Programming." The point is that optimizing when you don't know 
you have a bottleneck is usually a waste of time.