Premature optimisation is the root of all evil . . . said someone smarter than me (Donald Knuth).

Ah, there we go. Orders of magnitude less than. I feel safer already. :java: TTFN - Kent

Agree it's annoying. Probably the main reason for my excessive usage of: CTRL R+G - remove unused references and sort the others. CTRL K+E - offically "code cleanup", but for me at least: seems to do R+G and K+D for spacing things ...choice of each mostly dependent on mood.

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lol, no. So many reasons for a hard no.

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Thank you for your constructive contribution to this discussion. Appreciate your input and now I have a better understanding of the process.

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Didn't you read? It says, "lightweight." :rolleyes: The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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For the bigger dogs, Dynatrace seems to be something of a must. I note that it is "performance" issues. Lots of times that may not have much to do with code. When it is to do with code it is probably going to be architectural where fundamental design flaws can be corrected and change the metrics considerably. Some of this is people treating literally everything as preoptimization and relying on Dynatrace to optimize where specifically needed. I might argue that you aren't gonna innovate terribly much, and maybe it'd be counterproductive if you did when you're banging stuff out that chokes under load but don't know why till a Dynatrace tells you. ...But I am a good bit salty today.

Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure it will delete files as reliably as Windows Update fixes things I bet it will be really efficient, when it comes to the wrong files. M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

It depends on how intense my concentration has to be. For reasonably routine coding, I listen to my usual music playlist, which happens to include things like Switched On Bach. When it gets more intense, I'll switch to new age (e.g., Diane Arkenstone). But if it's really at the limit of what I can do, I need absolute silence. That doesn't happen very often but it does happen.

but wait, I thought all of the updates were for more security? And the reason we need Windows 11 is for more security (not advertising)? Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

Ah memory leaks (and small buffer overruns). I would point out that your example is fairly obvious. If you have a long running task, and this code is in some sort of processing loop, you'll see it quickly. What will really bite you in the a$$ are the small leaks. A byte here, a byte there. I live in the embedded world where customers forget our equipment was installed under their production line 10 years ago. The engineer responsible either died, retired or moved on to another company. I'm not being morbid, I have stories I could tell you :) The group I work in is a decent group of smart people. Sadly, they never let us into the field to see how the product is actually used. The few times I've seen examples, they always shock me with "I didn't see that coming" sort of response. What amazes me is that if your customer never turns off your machine, why not set up an area where a test unit runs forever? I guess it falls under diminishing returns. Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.