Optimized quoting (was Re: Speed?)

[Michael Hudson]

Grr...

aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:

> In article <mailman.43.1073115353.12720.python-list at python.org>,
> John Hunter  <jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >
> >Donald Knuth, God of Computer Science, said "Premature optimization is
> >the root of all evil".  
> 
> If Knuth is God, then Hoare is God's father:
> 
> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
> --C.A.R. Hoare (often misattributed to Knuth, who was himself quoting Hoare)

Cite?

> "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time:
> premature optimization is the root of all evil."  --Knuth restates Hoare

This is from "Structured Programming with goto Statements", and he's
not quoting Hoare at this point.  Really!

Cheers,
mwh

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