Many thanks to John for commenting on my Performance Tuning article. I’d just like to quote a snippet of what John has to say: “After all there’s no point optimising code that doesn’t actually work correctly” It reminded me of something obvious I forgot to mention in my previous articles: another of the “sins” I Read more…
In my previous article on Performance Requirements I argued that performance issues are requirements, and that this is not well understood in the software development community in general. In this article I’m going look at the performance tuning of existing code, argue that this is also poorly understood, and discuss the right way to go Read more…
Performance – in this case meaning a piece of software’s run time speed – is one of those things that always seems to cause problems whenever and wherever it comes up. Unfortunately, I think this is because it is very poorly understood across the software development community in general. Harking back to a contract I Read more…
Hungarian Notation is a variable naming convention invented by Charles Simonyi. It comes in two flavours: Systems Hungarian Notation, in which a prefix is used to encode the underlying representation of the identifier, for example dRadius to indicate that the radius is represented as a double presision number (i.e. prefixed with a “d”) Apps Hungarian Read more…