> The whole mantra of avoiding "premature optimizations" was applicable in an era when "optimizations" meant rewriting C code in assembly. Well, these days the

> The whole mantra of avoiding "premature optimizations" was applicable in an era when "optimizations" meant rewriting C code in assembly. Well, these days the equivalent to that seems to be rewriting {{ $HIGHER_LEVEL_LANGUAGE }} code in Rust. I would still be conscious of "premature optimizations" and wouldn't rewrite all the things in Rust (or something else) before profiling my existing code.