Comment by pydry
4 hours ago
In my career Ive seen about 1000 instances of somebody trying to optimize something prematurely.
Usually those people also have a good old whinge about the premature optimization quote being wrong or misinterpreted and general attitudes to software efficiency.
Not once have I ever seen somebody try to derail a process of "ascertain speed is an issue that should be tackled" -> "profile" -> fix the hot path.
> Not once have I ever seen somebody try to derail a process of "ascertain speed is an issue that should be tackled" -> "profile" -> fix the hot path.
Many things need to be optimized before you can easily profile them, so at this stage its already too late and your software will forever be slow.