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Some universal code optimization rules

From time to time I have advocated for design approaches which value consistency and ease of change over raw operations per second. I realize that this strategy makes some programmers…

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Articles January 19, 2017

Speed up RightAWS by Enabling libxml

So I was profiling our app the other day and discovered it was spending a significant amount of time in REXML. “REXML?” I thought. “Who uses REXML in 2009?” For…

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