[linux-audio-dev] Hello - FYI - intro

[Taybin Rutkin]

Just out of curiousity, what optimizations did he suggest and which ones were a good idea?

Taybin

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-lad at mega-nerd.com>
Sent: Aug 25, 2004 3:58 AM
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	The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List <linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Hello - FYI - intro

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:56:27 -0400
Paul Winkler <pw_lists at slinkp.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:35:12PM -0400, John Check wrote:
> > > > It's completely dwarfed by compile time.
> > >
> > 
> > Are you sure you wanted to say that ;)
> 
> Yes. First rule of optimization: don't optimize something that's
> statistically irrelevant. 

<vent=11/10>
I wish that attitude was more prevalent in the ricer community.

I've been getting emails from a Gentoo ricer suggesting a whole
bunch of "optimisations" for libsndfile. A small number of these
were valid, but the vast majority were not measurably faster as
measured by the benchmark program shipped with libsndfile.
</vent>

Erik
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