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

John Check j4strngs at bitless.net
Wed Aug 25 17:43:15 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 25 August 2004 03:58 am, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> 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

HAH Don't worry, they all get bit eventually.
Can't say I blame 'em, she's a hot little monkey ;D



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