Comment Re:Programmers, not tools (Score 1, Insightful) 229
"We don't need profilers, we need coders have have that tacit knowledge of what really counts, where they should put real effort. "
This is a load of crap. If you're optimizing before even knowing where the problem is you can't be writing serious apps. The only programmers I know who do this are the same assholes who use globals because they're faster. Or manually unroll their loops in every case because the "know" it's going help. Or inline every method they write in C++. Or decide that they need to create all their member variables as real instances as opposed to pointers because the pointer traversal is too expensive.
If you exhibit any of these symptoms you should quit programming. Please. You end up making more work for those of us who actually know what we're doing.
gid-foo
This is a load of crap. If you're optimizing before even knowing where the problem is you can't be writing serious apps. The only programmers I know who do this are the same assholes who use globals because they're faster. Or manually unroll their loops in every case because the "know" it's going help. Or inline every method they write in C++. Or decide that they need to create all their member variables as real instances as opposed to pointers because the pointer traversal is too expensive.
If you exhibit any of these symptoms you should quit programming. Please. You end up making more work for those of us who actually know what we're doing.
gid-foo
