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@ -22,9 +22,11 @@ And so we find, as we so often will, that optimization is definitely not
a cut-and-dried matter, and that there is no such thing as a single
"best" approach.
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![](images/i.jpg) *You must know what your application will typically do, and you must know whether you're more concerned with average or worst-case performance before you can decide how best to speed up your program—and, indeed, whether speeding it up is worth doing at all.*
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> ![](images/i.jpg)
> You must know what your application will typically do, and you must know
> whether you're more concerned with average or worst-case performance
> before you can decide how best to speed up your program—and, indeed,
> whether speeding it up is worth doing at all.
By the way, don't think that just because very large block sizes don't
much improve performance, it wasn't worth using restartable blocks in
@ -56,9 +58,11 @@ to the **read()** function, but a code profiler could be used to do the
same thing much more easily), I found that the best code in the world
wouldn't make much difference.
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![](images/i.jpg) *When you try to speed up code, take a moment to identify the hot spots in your program so that you know where optimization is needed and whether it will make a significant difference before you invest your time.*
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> ![](images/i.jpg)
> When you try to speed up code, take a moment to identify the hot spots
> in your program so that you know where optimization is needed and
> whether it will make a significant difference before you invest your
> time.
As for restartable blocks: Here we tackled a considerably more complex
application of restartable blocks than we did in Chapter 1—which turned