For me, your numbers underline the "premature optimization is the root of all evil" saying. Maybe misunderstanding the performance implications of different ord

For me, your numbers underline the "premature optimization is the root of all evil" saying. Maybe misunderstanding the performance implications of different orders of mangitudes is similar to the lack of understanding in statistics. I often encounter colleagues or customers who worry about some data structure or table when there are 10s of thousands of entries which is actually not enough to spend that much time worrying about.