During a development cycle, you spend most of your time making code changes.

在开发周期中，更改代码占用了大部分时间。

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Properties can be used to change the behavior of a component at run time without making code changes.

属性用于在运行时更改组件行为，不用更改代码。

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One of the benefits of this approach is the ability to tune queries at deployment time without making code changes.

该方法的优点之一是能够在部署时优化查询，而无需更改代码。

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Olson, in her annual report to Congress, issued today, identified the most serious problem facing taxpayers as Congress' own habit of making frequent, last-minute changes to the tax code.

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Even worse, it appears that BadNews is polymorphic, that is, it changes its own code structure depending on its deployment parameters making it considerably harder to detect and remove.

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