QUESTION
Generally speaking, what type of optimizations do you typically slant yourself towards when designing software?
Are you the type that prefers to optimize your design for
- Development time (i.e., quick to write and/or easier to maintain)?
- Processing time
- Storage (either RAM, DB, Disc, etc) space
Of course this is highly subjective to the type of problems being solved, and the deadlines involved, so I'd like to hear about the reasons that would make you choose one form of optimization over another.
ANSWER
Maintenance
Then profiling if necessary and optimize for speed. Rarely have I ever had a need for storage - at least not in the past 10 years. Prior to that I did.
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