Structured Programming with go to Statements.

Knuth, D. E. (1974). Structured Programming with go to Statements. ACM Computing Surveys, 6(4), 261-301.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1974

Volume

6

Issue

4

Pages

261-301

DOI

10.1145/356635.356640

DOI registrant

Association for Computing Machinery

Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/356635.356640

Cited from

computer_science

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Premature Optimization
  • One is a statistical generalization failure; the other a design-timing failure. Common misclassification. Using "premature optimization is the root of all evil" to defer all optimization, including known-hot-path work on irreversible foundations (data model, security boundary).

    This sourceSource of "premature optimization is the root of all evil" and the argument to profile before tuning the small critical fraction of code.

Mechanisms

• Optimization Backlog with Trigger Conditions
  • By making deferral a tracked state with an automatic reopening condition, it lets a team honor Knuth's warning against premature optimization

    This sourceWarns against premature optimization while reserving optimization effort for genuinely critical code.

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