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Wouldn't modern times make it more relevant ? I would choose "don't worry about speed, make it happen first".
by codegladiator 7y ago
Wouldn't modern times make it more relevant ? I would choose "don't worry about speed, make it happen first".
- andrewstuart 7y agoNo I think speed is a primary feature, not a secondary one. As the article says, users relate completely differently to a responsive application.
- codegladiator 7y agoThe point remains that modern hardware is already super fast. Besides, avoiding "premature optimization" is to avoid efforts to speed up parts of your code which were never a bottleneck. No one is arguing for writing slow code.