Borklog: One entry
21 December 2000
EvanD turned me on to kuro5hin.org - kind of an alternative slashdot. One story that caught my eye was Optimization and the Bazaar. The tradeoff of code readability versus program speed is a tough judgement to make in closed-source shops. The question becomes more interesting in the Open Source World. Do you make your code fast but readable, thereby losing potential programmers that don't want to spend the mental energy to understand your code; or do you make it readable but slow, thereby getting a hard-to-shake stigma of a slow, bloated, unusable package?
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