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I agree and would add that including an outline of the major alternatives considered in your notes can also save future duplication of effort as folks attempt to "improve" the code.


On Jul 29, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+100 on selecting the most effective solution regardless of elegance and documenting it. My mentor always told me, "Never let the perfect be the enemy of the good".

On 7/29/2020 10:56 AM, John Yeung wrote:
Honestly, if you were to just include copious comments explaining
"hey, yeah, this code is ugly, but we need it to run as fast as
possible, and this is the way that we've found runs the fastest", to
me that is perfectly fine.

John Y.


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