[Python-Dev] Complexity documentation request

Wed Mar 12 02:49:53 CET 2008

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> "Martin v. L?wis" writes:
>>>> Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
>> Actually, Knuth's bon mot was "Premature optimization is the root of
> all error."

>From my .sig database:

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare (often misattributed to Knuth, who was himself quoting Hoare)
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time:
premature optimization is the root of all evil." --Knuth restates Hoare
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