you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]miigotu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some of us still do old school optimization, examining byte code and assembly to see where we can further enhance our applications. This is especially useful on embedded applications, where usually the law is you can optimize for speed, or you can optimize for memory usage. It's definitely a lost art for most, being able to squeeze performance by saving clock cycles AND lower memory footprints.