Performance Analysis

One goal of this course is to develop skills for making evaluative judgments about algorithms. There are many criteria upon which we can judge an algorithm. For instance:

1.Does it do what we want it to do?

2.Does it work correctly according to the original specifications of the task?

3.Is there documentation that describes how to use it and how it works

4.Are procedures created in such a way that they perform logical sub functions?

5.Is the code readable?

These criteria are all vitally important when it comes to writing software, most especially for large system.

There are other criteria for judging algorithms that have a more direct relationship to performance. These have to do with their computing time and storage requirement.