Very good point. While all of these guidelines are spot on, I'll also usually favor maintainability/readability (as in proper combination of applying standard G

Very good point. While all of these guidelines are spot on, I'll also usually favor maintainability/readability (as in proper combination of applying standard Good Practices and design patterns) over anything else, if context allows. Then again, I noticed since C++11 and beyond there is much less of a trade-off between maintainability/readability and runtime performance than there used to be. Might also be compilers getting better, and hardware in general somewhat faster. The latter also being why I start to care less about compile-time performance.