From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4246083efae0e43b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) Ada Algorithm References: <35f054ea.0410290918.5f7f7d0@posting.google.com> <34defe4d.0410300854.5c038648@posting.google.com> <35f054ea.0410302259.7510a56e@posting.google.com> <34defe4d.0410311001.36e3680@posting.google.com> <35f054ea.0411010817.52bbf8fc@posting.google.com> <34defe4d.0411052123.49702f47@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <34defe4d.0411052123.49702f47@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:28:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.88 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1099769316 63.184.104.88 (Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:28:36 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:28:36 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6023 Date: 2004-11-06T19:28:36+00:00 List-Id: John Woodruff wrote: > However in my own life, I have stuck with an aphorism on the topic of > optimization that I picked up 30 or so years ago: > There are two guidelines for micro-optimization: > -- Don't do it > -- Don't do it yet. As I learned it, more like 25 years ago: 1. Don't do it 2. If you must do it, don't do it yet. 3. If you still must do it, see 1. -- Jeff Carter "It's symbolic of his struggle against reality." Monty Python's Life of Brian 78