I think what the people in that (painful to read) thread failed to realize is how the QA process works. I'm guessing that there would need to be significant re

I think what the people in that (painful to read) thread failed to realize is how the QA process works. I'm guessing that there would need to be significant regression testing for some of those optimizations. When you are killing yourselves to hit a date, that's the last thing you want to worry about considering things are already working well enough.