Desenvolvimento de Softwares: 12 coisas mais importantes que performance

Desenvolver grandes softtwares não envolve apenas performance. Abaixo
uma lista de 12 coisas que são mais importantes que performance no
desenvolvimento de software segundo o professor Charles E.
Leiserson[1] que é professor de ciência da computação do MIT[2].

• modularity,
• correctness,
• maintainability,
• security,
• functionality,
• robustness,
• user-friendliness,
• programmer’s time,
• simplicity,
• extensibility,
• reliability, and
• scalability.

He also asks “Why study algorithms and performance at all?”. He and students answer:

• Sometimes performance is correlated with user-friendliness.
• Performance draws line between feasible and unfeasible.
• Algorithms give language for talking about program behavior.
• Performance can be used to “pay” for other things, such as security, features and user-friendliness.

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[1] - http://people.csail.mit.edu/cel/
[2] - http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT
[3] - Referência: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/mit-introduction-to-algorithms-part-one/