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Re:“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance by amelius on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @04:58AM (#34980582)
No, if one day you decide to run it on a less capable CPU, it's nice if the optimization work has been done.
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Re:“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance by badsectoracula on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:17AM (#34983282)
This is the same as trying to guess the future that creates "astronautical architecture". You set a target hardware you're willing to support (e.g. PCs released in the last 10-15 years) and anything less is out of scope of the project. You don't need to support 8086 PCs for example.

(ignoring projects made for fun of course)

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