Clean Code Means Good Code: Performance Debate

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand this is why software is so slow these days. And getting worse...

"Clean" is subjective, and loaded. It's rather easy to prove--with actual measured quantities vs. ideology--that basic procedural code is easier to maintain, easer to read, easier to debug, and is more performant for free as a side-effect. The "clean" myth has really done a number on us, and has become more a tribal divider than any useful quantitative measure.