3 ms·Revisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper9 points by Bogdanp 1y agoTZubiri 1y agoI don't think the quote is often misused, probably 97% of the times it is used correctly, but we should not ignore the 3% of the times when it is applied incorrectlykarmakaze 1y agoFor those 97% the usage was YAGNI, the superset of premature optimizations.