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Re:The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization by ookblah on Saturday August 13, 2011 @08:02PM (#2882341)
This.

And to add, it's important to to decouple pieces of your project so that it's easy to refactor and optimize parts as you get to them.

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Re:The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization by bnegreve on Monday August 15, 2011 @05:47AM (#2886156)
However, optimization comes from "re-coupling" very often. see for example : monolithic kernels (monolithic, fast) vs micro kernel (decoupled, slow). If you really want something efficient, you'll have to think about it from the very beginning.
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