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Comment by cstoner

5 hours ago

Yeah, I interpret "premature optimization" as taking a request that takes 500ms and focusing on saving a couple ms by refactoring logic to avoid a SQL JOIN or something.

Your users are not going to notice. Sure, it's faster but it's not focused on the problem.

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