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forgot-my-pwyesterday at 10:01 PM1 replyview on HN

The art of premature optimizations


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smoldertoday at 5:15 AM

The art is in knowing how to write software that doesn't perform like shit without doing all the work of measuring and refining. If you can save $100k in hardware costs in a couple days by just knowing what you're doing, that optimization is not premature.