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Revisiting Knuth's 'Premature Optimization' Paper (probablydance.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Usually people say “premature optimization is the root of all evil” to say “small optimizations are not worth it”

No, that’s not what people mean. They mean measure first, then optimize. Small optimizations may or may not be worth it. You don’t know until you measure using real data.

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