Comment by vultour
2 months ago
Are you actually arguing that using a JSON parser for JSON-formatted data is a premature optimization? The solution here was to use a different format, not a somewhat-JSON-compatible hacked together parser.
2 months ago
Are you actually arguing that using a JSON parser for JSON-formatted data is a premature optimization? The solution here was to use a different format, not a somewhat-JSON-compatible hacked together parser.
No, i'm arguing that it wasn't a performance issue for the original purpose of the code and it only became one at much later, in a different project and only after some time long after that code was pushed way beyond what it was originally meant to do.
The premature optimization would be trying to optimize that piece of code without that being necessary given what the code was meant to do.