The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization

Re:The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization by joe_the_user on Saturday August 13, 2011 @11:00PM (#2882654)

...In an established code base that is reasonably well designed and well written, the performance is rarely dominated by a small number of very expensive bottlenecks that are ripe for local optimisation. Such things have usually been worked out a long time ago and there is no low hanging fruit left to pick.

Uh yeah. But I think this discussion is about creating a code and when to optimize it. It is kind of a tautology that when the code has been optimized and low-hanging fruit have been picked, they are, uh, gone.

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Re:The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization by Silhouette on Sunday August 14, 2011 @02:56AM (#2882993)

Sure, but if you get to "just before shipping" then hopefully you are already well past that point. As the article said, you typically can't just retrofit more performance at that stage without some serious rewriting.

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