Superjazz

Every so often, a post pops up in my RSS reader that is something along the lines of “20 optimisation tricks” or “10 techniques to make your code run faster”. Sure, everyone wants their code to run faster, but a number of these techniques only serve to make code run slower and become less readable. The problem is that people blindly accept these posts as factual information(myself included) because optimisation is hard, and the next time they come across a situation they use the false optimisation which makes their code run slower. I decided to investigate a one of the tips I read recently. Continue reading ‘The trap of false optimisation’