> Ensuring compiler optimizations are active would be the first low-hanging-fruit thing to come to anyone's mind when considering performace. The fact that it w

> Ensuring compiler optimizations are active would be the first low-hanging-fruit thing to come to anyone's mind when considering performace. The fact that it was 'forgotten' means that no one even considered performance during the whole development process. Not even in the "let's leave it to the compiler" form. This is a silly conclusion. More likely it means that either it was a conscious decision, or at the last minute the ball was dropped and those who should have signed off on this decision didn't even know about it. How could you go from serious-performance-error/tradeoff ships to "no one even considered performance during the whole development process" (my emphasis).