Comments on: Perspectives on Performance http://blog.secosoft.net/2006/08/24/perspectives-on-performance/ Matt Secoske's intermittent ramblings on software and life Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:16:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mike Hostetler http://blog.secosoft.net/2006/08/24/perspectives-on-performance/#comment-2335 Mike Hostetler Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:44:08 +0000 http://blog.secosoft.net/2006/08/24/perspectives-on-performance/#comment-2335 This kinda goes back to what we talked about at lunch yesterday -- in the end, management doesn't care about the quality of the code, they just want the end product to work well -- correctly and performance-wise. The only time they care about the quality is when it comes time to change it (add functionality, fix bugs) and then it's only because bad code takes longer to fix than good code. There are many books on this subject and no one has the universal answer. It really goes back to: "you can have it cheap, correct, or written quickly. Choose any two." I'd always choose "correct" but I've been in situations where correct wasn't chosen for us. It's a difficult thing. This kinda goes back to what we talked about at lunch yesterday — in the end, management doesn’t care about the quality of the code, they just want the end product to work well — correctly and performance-wise. The only time they care about the quality is when it comes time to change it (add functionality, fix bugs) and then it’s only because bad code takes longer to fix than good code.

There are many books on this subject and no one has the universal answer. It really goes back to: “you can have it cheap, correct, or written quickly. Choose any two.” I’d always choose “correct” but I’ve been in situations where correct wasn’t chosen for us. It’s a difficult thing.

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