blog: Overlooked Essentials for Optimizing Code

[Rainer Deyke]

On 10/21/2010 02:02, Peter Alexander wrote:
> I don't really think of CS that way. To me, CS is to practical
> programming as pure math is to accounting, i.e. I don't think CS should
> be teaching about profiling because that's what software engineering is
> for. They are two different worlds in my opinion. If you wanted to get a
> practical programming education and you took CS then I think you took
> the wrong degree.

There are fundamental skills that you will need if you spend any amount
of time programming, whether you are a CS student, a computational
scientist, or an actual programmer.  Profiling is one of these skills.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com