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The perfect is the enemy of the good. For a few hundred dollars I can buy more memory etc. that I can use over and over again. The time that is sunk into building it to make it more efficient is gone forever.

Admittedly, I liked the write up. It's a fun exercise to go over, but I would ask my devs to go with the original program.



You can't buy memory on your user's devices.


In a similar strain.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Knuth


Here is the larger quote:

“We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.”




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