Abstract
A program has two basic resources at its disposal:
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Processor time (i.e., CPU cycles)
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Memory
The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 2, scene 2
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Blunden, B. (2003). Optimization: CPU Cycles. In: Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0788-7_6
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