Re: 4 the FAQ: Are Commercial DBMS Truly Relational?
From: Paul <paul_at_test.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:43:20 +0100
Message-ID: <41699ee7$0$54819$ed2619ec_at_ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:43:20 +0100
Message-ID: <41699ee7$0$54819$ed2619ec_at_ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>
Kenneth Downs wrote:
> Have you ever "optimized" the work of others after the fact? I was in a
> situation once where I optimized several programs, gaining performance
> improvements in every case counting between 1-3 orders of magnitude. The
> supervisor was astonished and asked me how I did it. In each case the
> answer was the same, the program was doing too much work. It would do a
> lot of wrong work, and then somewhere do the right work. The entire
> optimization effort was in reducing the program to doing only what was
> necessary. There may have been a couple of tricks-of-the-trade for the
> platform in question, but mostly it was eliminating work.