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…
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…