90/10 rule... source?

Jens Troeger <jens.troeger@light-speed.de>
9 Jan 2004 23:40:30 -0500

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From: Jens Troeger <jens.troeger@light-speed.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 9 Jan 2004 23:40:30 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: practice, history, comment
Posted-Date: 09 Jan 2004 23:40:30 EST

Hello :)


I am looking for a (the) original paper on the 90/10 rule of program
execution. So far I found this reference


@ARTICLE{Knuth71,
              AUTHOR = "Donald E. Knuth",
              TITLE = "An Empirical Study of {FORTRAN} Programs",
              JOURNAL = "Software---Practice and Experience",
              VOLUME = 1,
              PAGES = {105--133},
              YEAR = 1971
}


but I couldn't get my hands on a copy of that paper. Is it the one I
am looking for?


Cheers,
Jens


[That's probably the one you want. It was the first to use the term
program profiling, and it was big news at the time how much of a
speedup you could get by rewriting tiny bits of a program if it was
the right tiny bits. It's reprinted in Knuth's new "Selected Papers
on Computer Languages", ISBN 1575863820. -John]

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