Several months ago I was having a discussion (that’s a polite word for argument) with a few co-workers about the optimal length of methods and the topic of performance came up. Someone with a C++ background brought up the point that shorter methods were less efficient than longer ones due to the extra cost of [...]
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I recently installed YSlow, a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool that does performance analysis based on the rules for high performance web sites developed by Yahoo. I tried it on DosPecesCreations.com, the e-commerce site I recently built for my wife using Ruby on Rails, and was surprised to learn that [...]
