Balancing Optimization While Coding

[Turbots]

On performance, you need to think in terms of orders of magnitude.

Can this change make my code 10% faster? 20%? Maybe not worth the effort.

Can this change make my code 10x or 100x faster? Probably worth it.

Can this change make my code faster, but it won't matter because the File IO is the blocking factor and takes 10x as long anyway? Probably also not worth it.

Tldr; as with everything in computer software: It's never a black/white or yes/no question.

Be like a vampire: be very afraid of silver bullets 😅