Subsentient writes:
"I've been writing C for quite some time, but I never followed good conventions I'm afraid, and I never payed much attention to the optimization tricks of the higher C programmers. Sure, I use const when I can, I use the pointer methods for manual string copying, I even use register for all the good that does with modern compilers, but now, I'm trying to write a C-string handling library for personal use, but I need speed, and I really don't want to use inline ASM. So, I am wondering, what would other Soylenters do to write efficient, pure, standards-compliant C?"
(Score: 2) by Aighearach on Monday March 17 2014, @09:10PM
As a Rubyist I challenge the idea that elegant is at odds with simple. The simpler code is generally more elegant.
It is the more clever code that uses the excuse of being faster, not the more elegant. Elegant code is faster where the algorithm it uses is simpler. That is the essence of an elegant improvement; the code gets simpler and typically faster.