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Revisiting Knuth's 'Premature Optimization' Paper

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Programming@programming.dev · 5 months ago

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Revisiting Knuth’s “Premature Optimization” Paper

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The most famous quote from Knuth’s paper “Structured Programming with go to Statements” is this: There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste e…

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Fun read, I’ve never heard the full quote before.

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