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as long as serial code provides good-enough response times from end-user perspective – DON’T PARALLELIZE

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out of all the premature optimizations, premature parallelization is the most premature one

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I made an experiment which demonstrates Big Fat Dangers(tm) of implying that parallelization can be made as simple as just adding a policy parameter to your std:: call.

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it is still necessary to understand what we’re doing

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we’re just narrowly avoiding a disaster without understanding how close we were

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there is a chance that intuitive::lt MIGHT be a good thing to make behaviour of our C++ code to correspond better to our-expectations-when-we’re-reading-it

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Descriptive style takes its roots from the «chain» pattern, in which the methods enclosed in classes return some reference on themselves.

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Business-driven testing or BDT allows non-technical members of any development team a stronger involvement in the development process by allowing them to comprehend test cases and even create their own.