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I'm a massive fan of this sort of 'large-scale micro' optimization. There's a big difference between premature optimization, and having heaps of little sticking

I'm a massive fan of this sort of 'large-scale micro' optimization. There's a big difference between premature optimization, and having heaps of little sticking points in your project. One of my favorite examples is Ubuntu - they run their 'One Hundred Papercuts' program [1], which is about fixing and optimizing little things that on their own would never get fixed, but together they are more than the sum of their parts in terms of user experience. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/One%20Hundred%20Papercuts https://wiki.ubuntu.com/One%20Hundred%20Papercuts

barbs 12y ago
My favourite recent example was SQLite, where hundreds of micro-optimizations led to version 3.8.7 to be 50% faster than 3.7.17. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/90549 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/9054...
- panic 12y ago
  Here's the associated HN discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420274 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420274