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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 22:13:37 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RFC: unit_list routines 
Message-ID:  <200105250413.f4P4DbE60065@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 May 2001 18:48:22 BST." <200105231748.f4NHmMF08217@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> 
References:  <200105231748.f4NHmMF08217@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>  

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In message <200105231748.f4NHmMF08217@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes:
: > I think the usual watchword is ``Don't optimize initialization.''
: 
: Maybe, but pessimising for no gains seems odd.

Not optimizing is different than pessimizing.  The usual phrase I hear 
around here is "premature submicro optimization."  That is, optimizing 
before you know what's slow and in a way that won't matter in the end.

Warner

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