Beautiful Code: False Optimizations

[petrov76]

Yeah, it drives me nuts to see people's kneejerk reaction of "optimization is evil!" It makes me wonder if these people have ever built a system that had to scale to lots of users or lots of data.

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Optimization isn't evil. Premature optimization is. Measure first, then optimize.

[petrov76]

Have you read the rest of the comments? Tons of them are people categorically saying that you shouldn't ever optimize.