Re: [computer-go] SGF parsers

[Marco Scheurer <marco@xxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 14, 2004, at 6:06 PM, Jim O'Flaherty, Jr. wrote:
> I agree with you.  There seems to be a plenty of focus on local 
> optimizations.  I like your
> staying focused on optimizing constraint(s)/bottlenecks only.  It is 
> way better use of the most scarce resource, your time.
[...]
> My time is way more important than trying to eek out performance on 
> things that are not part of
> the constraint, i.e. slowing down my system.  My time is best spent 
> designing, implementing and
> ONLY THEN optimizing whatever the constraint is.  I ASSUME I have 
> plenty of CPU and plenty of
> memory, and will buy more.  Optimizing to fit in 64K is long past for 
> me.  I am totally fine with
> multi-megabyte exes that take MB to function.
I'm not sure that Paul or me need to be lectured about what or when to 
optimize.

It didn't take me much time to reuse the SGF C library I choosed. A few 
years passed and ONLY WHEN adding 'library' functions to Goban I spent 
some time optimizing it. Taking 1 hour, or even 10 minutes, to read and 
index the GoGoD collection is not something I want to impose on my 
users. I do not think I wasted my time doing that. Of course, this is 
not the same need as Mark's one off importation for his own purpose.

marco

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