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How to become a faster coder without sacrificing quality?
The comments about my code have generally been the same: writes great code, well-tested, but could be faster. So how do I become a faster coder, without sacrificing quality?
Why do some people code faster than others?
Part of this is because a significant number of my peers sacrificed quality for speed; they wrote code that was buggy, hard to read, hard to maintain, and difficult to write automated tests for. My code generally is well-documented, readable, and testable. At Oracle, I would consistently solve bugs slower than other team-members.
When does parallelism make your code run faster?
When you’re doing computationally intensive calculations with NumPy, you’ll want to use all your computer’s CPUs. Your computer has 2 or 4 or even more CPU cores, and if you can use them all then your code will run faster. Except, of course, when parallelism makes your code run slower.
Is it possible to be faster than other developers?
It sounds like you are doing all the good things – that in the medium term will make you faster, so it is not obvious if you are actually slow. Only you really know that. ( but it is a very real possibility – PeopleWare claims an up to 10X productivty difference between developers for the same task ). So I have some suggestions for you :
How to speed up your product development without sacrificing quality?
Successful CIOs, CTOs & executives from Forbes Technology Council offer firsthand insights on tech & business. From frequent code purges to precisely defining your process, there are a few ways to speed up your development without worrying about diminishing the quality of your output.
Is it worth sacrificing quality for speed?
To maximize your utility, find a balance between these tensions. It’s quite possible that actually, you are being asked to sacrifice some quality, for greater speed. In some development environments 1, it is simply not worth the extra time to produce something polished, when “just good enough” will do.