Optimization Versus Flexibility — An Example

Last week, I discussed how optimization can sometimes mislead programmers into writing code that works better in the lab than in the field, perhaps because the problems that programs encounter in the field are larger than those that are used during testing. As luck would have it, since I wrote that article, I encountered a real-world example of that phenomenon.


April 04, 2013
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