7 Opinionated optimization
This chapter covers
- Embracing premature optimization
- Taking a top-down approach to performance problems
- Optimizing CPU and I/O bottlenecks
- Making safe code faster and unsafe code safer
Programming literature on optimization always starts with a well-known quote by the famous computer scientist Donald Knuth: “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” Not only is the statement wrong, but it’s also always misquoted. First, it’s wrong because everybody knows that the root of all evil is object-oriented programming since it leads to bad parenting and class struggles. Second, it’s wrong because the actual quote is more nuanced. This is almost another case of lorem ipsum, which is gibberish because it is quoted from ...
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