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Re: Of Bounties and Mercenaries
Toon Moene wrote:
Unfortunately, that depends on your niche. In meteorology, a program is
compiled and then used for a year before recompiling (unless an urgent
problems rises). That's (in our case) 365 * 8 ~ 3000 runs against 1
compile.
Such extreme cases are ones in which it pays to do extensive profiling
and code improvement. They also tend to be cases where the execution
time is spent in inner loops that can if necessary be optimized by
hand.