﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ayende @ Rahien</title><link>http://ayende.com</link><description>Ayende @ Rahien</description><copyright>Copyright (C) Ayende Rahien  2004 - 2021 (c) 2026</copyright><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Steve Py commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>&lt;conspiracy  
Discrediting the most outrageous option. That must mean it's closest to the truth. 
  
  
Though I'd think the only thing more mind-numbingly boring than performance optimization would be _writing about_ performance optimization... Are you sure you don't just want to be a lion tamer? :)
  
&gt;</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment21</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment21</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:17:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>James L commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Well?
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment20</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment20</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:48:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ayende Rahien commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Mischa,
  
God, no.
  
Perf optimization is some of the most horrifyingly mind numbing work possible.
  
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment19</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment19</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:29:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mischa Kroon commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Because you want to establish yourself as an expert in the field and want to do some contract work optimising other peoples .NET software. 
  
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment18</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment18</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:08:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>meo commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Maybe it is a good way to pump up such skills by yourself?
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment17</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment17</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:27:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Petar Petrov commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Because you will post a challenge(and a reward I suspect) to optimize some code. An reward from you won't be something easy to get :) 
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment16</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment16</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:23:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nick B commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>You plan on launching an iphone app of the profiler and thus need to keep resource management tight.
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment15</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment15</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:49:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>alwin commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Because you were bored and wrote those posts to fill some of the free time you have plenty of? :)
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment14</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment14</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:15:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ori Almog commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Because you can
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment13</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment13</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:55:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NC commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Because your stroking your ego?
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment12</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:50:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ben Hall commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Because so many people get it wrong and you're bored of using slow software? 
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment11</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment11</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:01:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Richard Dingwall commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Many optimizations = many posts?
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment10</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment10</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:25:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rik Hemsley commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Microsoft want to buy it?
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment9</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment9</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:59:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>silk commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Because you want to advertise your product, make it more visible, show how good it is, sell more copier, earn more money and rule the world, or sth like that ;)
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment8</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:26:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dmitry commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>You are doing a Tekpub feature or a course on .NET code optimization
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment7</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment7</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:22:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Arnis L. commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Because you got nothing left to write about? :D
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment6</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:19:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mark Nijhof commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>+1 on Davy
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment5</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment5</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:21:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>El Guapo commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>You are writing another book. OK maybe another MSDN article.
  
  
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment4</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment4</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:23:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Davy Brion commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>because you want to show that you built NH Prof without worrying up-front about small optimizations and then waited until problems arose so you could profile your code and then fix the most pressing issues in as few places as possible for a maximum benefit?  As in: the way it should be done :)
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment3</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment3</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:45:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mikael Henrikson commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Well, what about remote profiling / profiling server listening to all current profilers (nh, ef, l2s h) all in one?
  
  
I did enjoy the reasoning in the posts and I sure learnt some ways to optimize. 
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment2</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:43:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Anders commented on Why all the performance posts?</title><description>Simply because you always post about current work and interests? Thats also why we read them...
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment1</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4348/why-all-the-performance-posts#comment1</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:40:35 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>