skink wrote:
To me, a lesson that is more important than platform idiosyncrasies is
that you knew you had a problem, because you had the wit to instrument
your code. I've known many developers who were pathologically incapable
of ever knowing they had a problem! Not to criticize the cleverness of
your alternate plan but often such work-arounds turn out to be
'requirements' invented by developers which are really irrelevant to the
app. I remember a number of people trying to streamline code in a sort
bottleneck in database system code. The final attempt eliminated the
sort entirely by re-arranging a few structures. The person who wrote the
sort had been ignorant of all the requirements, so he thought he must
invent a few. I imagine people who write to smaller slower devices are
more aware of this phemenon.