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Comment by karolusrex

16 hours ago

You measure and improve the metric, but at what cost, when should you stop? Have you worked on a 1mill+ loc web app?

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austin-cheney  15 hours ago

You improve performance for a variety of reasons. You stop when you have competing evidence. The other 99% of the time it’s just developers making bullshit excuses.

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