Re: [Boost-users] [scoped_array] "optimization"

From: Gottlob Frege (gottlobfrege_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-25 20:47:01

On 4/25/07, Michael Marcin <mmarcin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a new programmer on my team who has been brought on as an
> optimization engineer.  She has a lot more experience than I do but I fear
> some of that experience may have left impressions that have stuck with her
> for too long.  On the first check in labeled spot optimizations there were
> many things changed that disturbed me.

Stop right there.  Doesn't matter what the changes are, whether they
are boost or whatever, etc.  Just ask to see the before and after
measurements.

The optimizer's first *and last* tool should be a profiler.  Find the
bottlenecks and fix them, nothing else.

Tony