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Profilers show where time is spent but not which of that time can feasibly be reduced or is worth optimizing.

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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.

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What Nelson Elhage actually said

  1. Nelson Elhage Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance
    Profilers can only show you "what is there"; skillful performance engineering requires understanding the information that shapes and informs the profile but is "not there" in the profile itself.

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