介紹幾篇與 CS 有關的文章…
對效能(performance)這話題有興趣的話可以看看這篇文章
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processing-a-sorted-array-faster-than-an-unsorted-array
短網址: http://goo.gl/u4Ebl
Wikipedia 上也有很淺顯的介紹
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_performance_testing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_optimization
就 optimization 而言,可以濃縮成 Donald Knuth 的這句話
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97%
of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil."
有人把這句譯為: 未成年就那麼優是罪惡的根源
- Donald Knuth
易言之,在動手大改前,得先設計好嚴謹的測量步驟及了解從程式語言到 CPU opcode
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