Re: [tlug] Giving a program priority briefly

["Nguyen Vu Hung" <vuhung16plus@example.com>]

On 6/11/07, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:
> > Have you ever heard of lcov or tools like such?
> > http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php
> > When you use that, we know exactly what part of code need to be
> > refactored - not by reading the code.
>
> Refactoring is the art of changing the code to make it more
> readable/expandable (usually with a future addition in mind, not just
> for the sake of itself), without changing functionality. Coverage
> doesn't seem to be related (coverage tools are used to see if you have
> enough tests).
>
> Darren

I know. You can use lcov to do a coverage test and get a report
generated from it. A valuable statistic in lcov report is that you can
see what part of the code are executed, and how many times it has been
called. For example, you can see a function is called 10000 times and
a nested loop is executed 2000 times while another part of code is
dead. By rewriting them, we reserve the functionality of the code yet
it becomes faster.

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