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Wait... people understood "premature optimisation" to mean "small optimisations are not worth it"? I've always understood it to mean exactly what it's supposed
by globular-toast 1y ago
Wait... people understood "premature optimisation" to mean "small optimisations are not worth it"? I've always understood it to mean exactly what it's supposed to mean, namely don't optimise something until you've shown that it's actually needed. I honestly don't know how it could be interpreted any other way.
- bluGill 1y agoIt is sad how often people cite premature optimization in the real world even when it isn't premature. Using a good algorithm is never premature optimization, particularly when the good algorithm is likely built into your language as well. Likewise if you have run the profiler it is not premature optimization, and running the profiler to find those places is not premature optimization.