August 2017

Efficiency & Performance: Not the same thing

One of the first videos I created for YouTube was about the relationship between programming and puzzles, and specifically, about how some problems in either domain are only difficult when you don't consider all your possible options. That video has received a lot of hits and a lot of comments, but many of those comments are about the supposed lack of efficiency of the code I used in the program example, which really isn't the point of the video, or indeed, of what I will call the Think Like a Programmer philosophy. But it did make me realize that performance and efficiency are topics I should address, and so I have!


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