Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: A suggestion for the next high profile Haskell project

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:14:09PM +0100, ls-haskell-developer-2006@m-e-leypold.de wrote:

Tomasz Zielonka writes:

...

Anyway, don't concentrate on this particular example. All I say is that: - sometimes I get efficient programs in Haskell right away (I my case quite often, but YMMV) - sometimes efficiency doesn't matter I don't think it is contradictory, especially because the two "sometimes" can have a non-empty symmetric difference.

... speed/efficiency ...

... optimize.

... fast ... faster... optimize

unoptimized ... fast ...

optimize...

... optimize ...

I think it's high time to remind the very true Hoare's words: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming" It's strange nobody mentioned it earlier. Best regards Tomasz