With the wide acceptance of laptop and even smaller devices more and more people have been exposed to devices limited by energy consumption. Still, programmers don't pay much attention to this aspect. This statement is not entirely accurate: there has been a big push towards energy conservation in…| udrepper.livejournal.com
In the last weeks I have seen far too much code which reads directory content in horribly inefficient ways to let this slide. Programmers really have to learn doing this efficiently. Some of the instances I've seen are in code which runs frequently. Frequently as in once per second. Doing it right…| udrepper.livejournal.com