“Most programmers, even experienced ones, are poor judges of how code actually performs.”
― Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Signature Series
― Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Signature Series
“So, my overall advice on performance with refactoring is: Most of the time you should ignore it. If your refactoring introduces performance slow-downs, finish refactoring first and do performance tuning afterwards.”
― Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Signature Series
― Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Signature Series
“As I suggested before, temporary variables can be a problem. They are only useful within their own routine, and therefore they encourage long, complex routines.”
― Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Signature Series
― Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Signature Series
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