Revisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper

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7 points | by Bogdanp 15 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • TZubiri 7 hours ago ago

    I don't think the quote is often misused, probably 97% of the times it is used correctly, but we should not ignore the 3% of the times when it is applied incorrectly

    • karmakaze 5 hours ago ago

      For those 97% the usage was YAGNI, the superset of premature optimizations.