"Premature optimization" is when something non critical takes a miniscule unnoticeable amount of time and you go down a rabbit hole to try to make it take even

"Premature optimization" is when something non critical takes a miniscule unnoticeable amount of time and you go down a rabbit hole to try to make it take even less time. When something takes 3 minutes we're beyond talking about optimization. Something that takes 3 minutes is usually a sure sign of really really bad architecture, unless we're talking about time intensive tasks like video encoding or downloading a huge amount of data. And even then you need to question: do we need to download this much data?