Of Bounties and Mercenaries

[Robert Dewar]

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.