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What do you specifically optimise for when programming?

30 Mar 2009 to 6 Apr 2009 Harder, better, faster, stronger. What parts of your programs do you focus on when optimising?

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(9) Maintainability
(5) Readability
(3) CListCtrl
(2) ease of maintenance
(2) Readability of the code
(2) Stability -- less risky code
(1) Structure and readability of code
(1) suicide rate
(1) USER PROOFING ! ! !
(1) Whatever is especially relevant to the particular application and its user(s).
(1) Whatever is needed after it is written
(1) Readability/Maintainability
(1) Reduce Working Set
(1) reliability
(1) Reusability, Interoperability,...
(1) reuse
(1) re-useability and maintenance
(1) Securety
(1) Size of program
(1) source code
(1) Speed of any code that can be sped up easily
(1) Maintainability and extensibility
(1) maintainability of code
(1) maintainability of the code
(1) Maintainanbility
(1) Maintanability
(1) maintenance
(1) Maintenance / Edit-ability
(1) mantainability
(1) Error handling
(1) Evolvability
(1) Features
(1) Flexibility
(1) google
(1) I just write proper code
(1) It depends on the constraints of each project
(1) Look and feel
(1) Maintability
(1) Code simplicity and correctness
(1) CPianoCtrl
(1) Defensive Coding
(1) Depends on what is important to each project: sometimes minimal memory usage is important; somtimes it's responsivenes. Sometimes development cost is what has to be minimised, so no code opimisation.
(1) 1234
(1) 66812
(1) abc
(1) Awesomeness
(1) CfuckingListCtrl is no longer funny.
(1) clear code