Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch: Shortening operation names?

I'd be inclined to stick with the readable names, unless there's a clear case 
that the extra bytes will have significant effect on performance.

[[
Donald Knuth made the following two statements on optimization:

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature 
optimization is the root of all evil"[2]

(He also attributed the quote to Tony Hoare several years later,[3] although 
this might have been an error as Hoare disclaims having coined the phrase.[4])

"In established engineering disciplines a 12 % improvement, easily obtained, is 
never considered marginal and I believe the same viewpoint should prevail in 
software engineering"[2]
]]
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_optimization#When_to_optimize

I'd be surprised if, in practice, the shorter names would yield a >10% improvement.

#g
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On 06/12/2011 01:55, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> It's been suggested on more than one occasion that the operation names
> in JSON Patch are too verbose. I've countered with the point that if you
> transmit via HTTP and "Content-Encoding: gzip", the verbosity is nicely
> compressed out. This argument has served me well (insofar as it tends to
> silence most critics), but I continue to get challenged on this point.
> I'm curious to know what position APPSAWG members may have. Should I use
> "rm" or even "-" instead of the more verbose "remove"?
>
> Paul
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