Maintainable code or performant code, yes. That's always a tradeoff. The most high performance code will be manually tuned assembly, but I don't see author writ

Maintainable code or performant code, yes. That's always a tradeoff. The most high performance code will be manually tuned assembly, but I don't see author writing in assembly, so he's already made some tradeoff against performance. It's all down to your priorities.