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The perfect is the enemy of the good. For a few hundred dollars I can buy more memory etc. that I can use over and over again. The time that is sunk into buil
by kemiller2002 8y ago
The perfect is the enemy of the good. For a few hundred dollars I can buy more memory etc. that I can use over and over again. The time that is sunk into building it to make it more efficient is gone forever.
Admittedly, I liked the write up. It's a fun exercise to go over, but I would ask my devs to go with the original program.
- cityhomesteader 8y agoIn a similar strain. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Knuth
- girvo 8y agoHere is the larger quote: “We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.”
- ant6n 8y agoYou can't buy memory on your user's devices.