Re:The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009)
by tmcb on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @04:36AM
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This is partly what I was trying to convey with the "turning this aphorism into a question" fragment. Sometimes it is just not possible, or it is too expensive, to increase hardware performance.
Premature optimization, or at least one of its manifestations, is failing to consider the opposite.
If you are releasing consumer applications either your program works smoothly on the device a consumer has or not, let alone has the ability to buy either financially or fundamentally (as in you don’t find a phone with desktop level performance anywhere, because they don’t simply exist).