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Comment by doe88

11 hours ago

Great rules, but Rule 3.: WOW, so true, so well enunciated, masterful.

Yes, and I'd say it's more true now than then. Best case, your fancy algorithms are super-sizing code that runs 1% of the time, always kicking more-often-run code out of the most critical CPU caches. Worst case, your fancy algorithms contain security bugs, and the bad guys cash in.