[Omaha.pm] Evolution or devolution?

[Andy Lester]

On Dec 28, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Sean Baker wrote:

>> The question of "is it faster" is almost always irrelevant.
> Processor time is orders of magnitude less expensive than programmer
> time.
>
> Try telling that to my boss! I'm always saying throw more hardware at
> it, lol.....

Then use profiling tools to find out where your hotspots are.   
Chances are that the specifics of how to write a sort are not the  
bottleneck.

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