Performance anti patterns

Question

I am currently working for a client who are petrified of changing lousy un-testable and un-maintainable code because of \"performance reasons\". It is clear t

Answer 1

Appending to an array using (for example) push_back() in C++ STL, ~= in D, etc. when you know how big the array is supposed to be ahead of time and can pre-allocate it.