On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:34:31AM -0500, Scott Reynolds wrote:

> I seem to recall that there's a relevant Dykstra quote about the evils 
> of optimizing, but I'll be hanged if I can remember it...

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time:
premature optimization is the root of all evil."  --  Tony Hoare

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