Chapter 25. Code-Tuning Strategies
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Code-tuning techniques: Chapter 26
Software architecture: Architecture Prerequisite
This chapter discusses the question of performance tuning—historically, a controversial issue. Computer resources were severely limited in the 1960s, and efficiency was a paramount concern. As computers became more powerful in the 1970s, programmers realized how much their focus on performance had hurt readability and maintainability and code tuning received less attention. The return of performance limitations with the microcomputer revolution of the 1980s again brought ...
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