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authors
Bentley, Jon L.
year
1984
title
Code Tuning -- Programming Pearls
source
communications of the ACM. February, 1984. vol. 27: pp. 91-96
summary
Efficiency is one of many problems in programming, and there are many ways to achieve it. This column is about a low-level approach . 'Code tuning' locates the expensive parts of an existing program and then modifies that code to improve its performance