[Proj] Re: NAD problems on OSX 10.5 Leopard

[strebe at aol.com]

 "Premature optimization" was probably coined by pioneering computer scientist C.A.R. Hoare, who said, "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Sadly, this is often misunderstood to mean, "Engineering for scalability is the root of all evil."

Regards,
-- daan Strebe



 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Greenwood <richard.greenwood at gmail.com>
To: PROJ.4 and general Projections Discussions <proj at lists.maptools.org>
Sent: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 8:50 pm
Subject: Re: [Proj] NAD problems on OSX 10.5 Leopard










On Jan 17, 2008 8:28 PM, Ed McNierney <ed at topozone.com> wrote:
> Rich -
>
> The one thing that significantly surprised me was how well that code
> performed on low-end machines.  I think I released it in 2002 - maybe
> 2001 - and there were plenty of "slow" computers visiting TopoZone.  I
> realize it's just math (other than updating the status bar with the
> formatted coordinate text), but I was really expecting to see some kind
> of lag if you waved the mouse quickly on a slow machine, but I never saw
> the slightest delay.  I have found that I sometimes worry excessively
> about performance!
>
>         - Ed

I believe it was you who coined the term "premature optimization",
which always gets a chuckle when I use it. And I too have been amazed
at the performance of the JavaScript code I ported that does one or
more a projections (or unprojections) and a 7 parameter datum
transform for every pixel the user passes over. I kind of remember
computer science texts that discouraged us from using floating point
math if it could possibly be done with integers.

-- 
Richard Greenwood
richard.greenwood at gmail.com
www.greenwoodmap.com
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