Jeff Abrahamson on 3 Dec 2004 00:15:04 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Slides for qmail talk


On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:03:34AM -0500, Mark Dominus wrote:
> I am reminded here of R.W. Floyd's remark that premature optimization
> is the root of all evil.  Bernstein's take on it (which I found after
> writing this message) can be found here:

I thought this was by Tony Hoare, often quoted by Knuth.

    http://www.cookcomputing.com/blog/archives/000084.html

But note how consistent Wikipedia is on the matter:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Floyd

More on Hoare:

    http://research.microsoft.com/~thoare/
    http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/people/tony.hoare.html

Anyone know a more authoritative source?

-- 
 Jeff

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