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Re:“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance by boredhedgehog on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:47AM (#34979797)
> If your program isn't slow then you don't need to bother making it any faster.

But you can only judge that for the very limited set of hardware you personally have access to. You might have many users -- or potential users -- with slower CPUs.

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Re:“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance by badsectoracula on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:15AM (#34983262)
This is where having a target hardware comes in. Aside from doing it for fun, there isn't much of a point to care for 15 year old PCs for example.
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