I think that should be emphasized. The rest of the optimizations are entirely unneeded and added complexity to the code base. The next guy to work on this needs

I think that should be emphasized. The rest of the optimizations are entirely unneeded and added complexity to the code base. The next guy to work on this needs to be a cpp dev, but the requirements were only asking for 500ms which was more than met by the first fix. What the payoff of this added performance with and at what cost?