Sorry, but that optimization elitarism does not get anyone anywhere. Most software written today is quite high level, be it the >2 million apps or the >1 billio

Sorry, but that optimization elitarism does not get anyone anywhere. Most software written today is quite high level, be it the >2 million apps or the >1 billion websites. In my household neither the smoke detector, toaster or washing mashine needs faster executed code. I understand where you are coming from but for optimizations such low level considerations should be among the last because they matter so little. Most of the time an additional caching structure or the like solves any performance issues.