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  • I remember a few long running TV shows with cast writing and directing episodes.

    Duchovny directed a few XFiles episodes.

    Two of the leads directed episodes og SG-1, antihero wrote at least one episode.

    Those two are just off the top of my head, but I remember noticing cast doing extra stuff regularly. Probably not too common in the early seasons, but it is a great way for them to branch out.

    That said, some are more successful than others.












  • And sometimes a co pletely different approach is better than focusing on the runtime of a single piece. We had a system that was sql code that ran many functions that scaled horribly as data was added to the system. Each function was as fast as could be measured, but the process of running them as separate repetitive functions ended up being over 24 hours in some cases.

    Redoing them as a single stored procedure and optimizing that reduced it to a few minutes. This approach was much more complex than the individual functions and took about a year to replace what was oroginally written in 3 months.

    Many times the effort to make something more efficient takes far longer than getting it to work in the first place, and many processes are slow because they did not allocate time to properly optimize or include staff that are able to optimize.