http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm A series of occasional musings on architecting, securing, optimizing and generating web based applications. By Peter Bell. en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 12:40:39 -0400 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:45:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss test@test.com test@test.com http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/7/2/Duck-Typing-for-Performance Firstly, please note <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing">Duck typing</a> (see Sean Corfields excellent <a href="http://corfield.org/articles/ducktyping_cfunited.pdf">presentation</a>) is NOT primarily about performance. In most cases this is probably the least interesting aspect of it. Using duck typing to improve performance before identifying a performance bottleneck is a sure sign of <a href="http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/7/2/Definition-Premature-Optimization">Premature Optimization</a> :-> Once you have a working application with a performance bottleneck which can be attributed to a large number of method calls each of which does a relatively small amount of processing, it is time to consider taking advantage of duck typing to improve the performance . . . [More] Design Patterns Performance Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:45:00 -0400 http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/7/2/Duck-Typing-for-Performance