Subj : Looking moremore optimizations!
To : Harry Potter
From : Janne Johansson
Date : Sun Nov 04 2018 12:08 pm
On 2018-11-03 23:02, Harry Potter : Janne Johansson wrote:
> On Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 6:44:06 PM UTC-4, Janne Johansson wrote:
>> Did you take into account what people already replied to you?
>>
> Uhh...can somebody please re-post the advice. :( Years ago, I got some
> advice on optimizing and applied it, but IIRC, nothing on my text
> adventure.
>
>> If you didn't, would it be worth for others to keep feeding advice?
>
> Admittedly, no. :(
Both me and Niklas Lindholm replied to you this week on how showing code
intermixed with 50+% commented-out lines makes it super hard for humans
to see whats left, especially (at least in my case) if those lines
contain a lot of " // else { " flow control since my brain is very much
adapted to recognizing changes in control flow when trying to divinate
what a program does.
I'll jut leave you with: "rethink the algorithms, wait with instruction
optimization until the very last". There is basically no use in looking
for the best asm opcodes if you are bubblesorting 1000s of random
entries using O(n^2) steps to do it, as opposed to using a better sort
even if uses poor or expensive instructions to solve itself.
Also, look up the term "Askhole" while pondering how come you get so few
decent responses long-term. Like when it took some 10 weeks for you to
find anything on LZ77 optimal parser after getting that exact hint on
comp.compression. When I type "lz77 optim" google fills in the rest and
there just pops out tons of pages on that very subject.
I have absolutely no idea on how you are, what kind of person or
anything but your actions clearly makes it appear as if you are throwing
out a lot of "can you please make an effort for me?" and then just
moving on not caring if people did small or large amounts of work for
your sake.
I don't think that pays off in the long run.
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