Chad Clark's Open Journal : 2006-10-08

1) Paul Hsieh on programming optimization.

Paul Hsieh discusses programming optimization over at 
http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html

He has some examples and sometimes a comment like:

  doesn't the above code scream at you to do some basic control
  transformations? I mean hoist the damn "if" statements to the 
  outside of the loop for crying out loud!