> >
> > I believe implementation is the last step of design, and
> optimization
> comes
> > after that.
> >
>
> There are two types of optimizations that can occur here.
[snipping the good stuff...]
I was being just _teensy_ bit tongue-in-cheek.
Implementation is a kind of formal proof of a design. Once the holes in the
original design are encountered in the implementation attempt and patched
over, optimization is by then generally less important than shipping the
@#!$ thing, so that gets done in the next release.
Maybe it's just me...
