It's a nonstandard definition of optimization in many of these case but I still feel like this all falls under "Premature optimization is the root of all evil"

It's a nonstandard definition of optimization in many of these case but I still feel like this all falls under "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" Also importantly apparently the full(er) quote is "say about 97% of the time, premature..." Because even Knuth knew that sometimes you should design for that herd of buses.