Re: [xml-dev] Design as, one hopes, not premature optimization

[Bill de hÓra <bill@dehora.net>]

Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> "Design is a kind of optimization, as Tommie Usdin likes to point out"
> 
> Hah.  Interesting way to put it, and quite true, but since design is typically 
> the first step in development, does this cause a collision of aphorisms with 
> the accepted wisdom that premature optimization is evil?

We're always optimizing, just not always optimizing for performance. 
For the hillclimbers among us:

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/wolpert95no.html

Bill de hÓra
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