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From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
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Date: Thu,  6 Feb 2003 08:36:34 -0800
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Oh, and another thing - we ran very few benchmarks or efficiency tests
over the years.  When we did, it was because someone asked us, because
we had some big new component (like a new network interface) we wanted
to try out, or because we needed to have numbers to publish a paper.
In other words, making measurements to test performance was never a
priority, and that means the measurements themselves were never a
priority.

I'm not saying running fast is bad, I'm just saying we tried to write
a smooth, efficient system by design, but we were not willing (or even
thinking) to make our code ugly to achieve ultimate speed.

-rob