“Most important optimization is developer time and code cleaniness” True for 99% of programming jobs, but if you are worried about the speed of null checks, yo

“Most important optimization is developer time and code cleaniness” True for 99% of programming jobs, but if you are worried about the speed of null checks, you are in that 1%. In high frequency trading, if you aren’t first your last and this is the exact type of code optimizations you need for the “happy path”