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A profiler measures time already spent in an operation, not how much time would be saved by optimizing it.

Drawn from what Nelson Elhage said

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software performance Speed as a mark of quality: bloat, boot times, and software that got slower on hardware that got faster.

What Nelson Elhage actually said

  1. Nelson Elhage Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance
    a profile tells you how much time a program spent in a given operation; but not how much time it would spend if you optimized that operation.

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