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Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help [message #35934 is a reply to message #35884]

Tue, 29 July 2003 06:34

jjbezair
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Registered: July 2003

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In article <c2959ed8.0307281353.1ea32426@posting.google.com>,
astronomer <touser2001@yahoo.com> wrote:

[snip]

> I am sure they will come in handy since the other procedures I have to
> do are all procedures on arrays.
> I am at the same time updating old versions of the program by
> implementing the changes, trying to understand the changes, and trying
> to continue the program to get some science done (but now everytime I
> add something to the program I can`t help feeling that it must be
> soooo inefficient! someday I`ll laugh (or cry) upon reviewing my
> code).
>

Keep in mind that if you are writing software that you will be using in
your own analysis (as opposed to software that will be distributed and
used by other people too) that the goal is always to minimize the total
amount of time the analysis takes you (including writing the software!). I
always have to catch myself from trying to optimize code just for the sake
of optimizing code (I have a hidden computer programmer geek side in
addition to my physicist geek side). A very wise collaborator gave me an
excellent guideline that I'm sure shaved months off of my thesis
time. Only work on making code run faster while you are waiting for it to
finish running and have nothing else to work on. This time has been
specially set aside by the computer gods for you to work on optimization.

regards,
Jeff Bezaire

>
> Thanks everyone!!!
>
> Bruno
> Astronomy PhD Student
> University of Florida

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		Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Thu, 24 July 2003 13:40
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Tue, 29 July 2003 15:21
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: David Fanning on Tue, 29 July 2003 10:16
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: Pavel Romashkin on Tue, 29 July 2003 08:40
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: jjbezair on Tue, 29 July 2003 06:34
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: David Fanning on Mon, 28 July 2003 15:27
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Mon, 28 July 2003 14:53
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Mon, 28 July 2003 14:40
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: pford on Mon, 28 July 2003 11:30
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: David Fanning on Mon, 28 July 2003 08:32
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: David Fanning on Mon, 28 July 2003 06:45
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: Ben Panter on Mon, 28 July 2003 05:40
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: JD Smith on Sun, 27 July 2003 23:22
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Sat, 26 July 2003 13:48
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: Ben Panter on Sat, 26 July 2003 00:48
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: touser2001 on Fri, 25 July 2003 19:14
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: Pavel Romashkin on Fri, 25 July 2003 15:34
		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: wmconnolley on Mon, 11 August 2003 08:28
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		Re: Astronomys` Sixth Neighbour Needs Help By: google_forums on Tue, 12 August 2003 09:11
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