Archive for September, 2008
Friday, September 12th, 2008
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Before doing any kind of optimisation it is important to find out where your program is spending its time. A lot of people have wasted a lot of time and written lots of unnecessary code because they thought they knew where to optimise. If ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
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Sometimes, there's no substitute for actually trying something out. A prototype is a 'quick-and-dirty' piece of code in which you try out possible solutions to some (or all) of your requirements. In this article, we're going to consider the whens, whys and hows of ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
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In this post, we're going to introduce the concept of code optimisation. We'll present the big picture of what it is, why it's important, and cover the main things you need to consider when thinking of optimising your code. Optimisation is the ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
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Following on from our articles on choosing a programming language (I and II) and answering a request from one of our readers, this post gives a couple of concrete examples of the process of choosing programming languages. We've taken them from our own experiences, ...
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