2009/3/5 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net writes:
i would imagine that inefficient is the _last_ thing on the list of priorities. "technically correctly fulfilling the semantics" i would imagine would be the highest priority.
"efficient" and "nice" can always be done later, yes?
No, in many cases efficiency needs to be taken into account in the design phase. You can't just add it later.
sure you can. by redesigning.
So you're saying that your original design is wasted effort? If it CAN be redesigned to be efficient, nice, sensible and correct, it's worth doing that from the start, especially in a big project such as Wine.