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The steady stream of "we had to rewrite the whole thing because it was too slow" engineering blog posts is the proof that deferring performance to hotspot optimization does not work.

Drawn from what Casey Muratori 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.

When does an abstraction help, and when does it hurt?under our view: The rules taught as clean code make programs worse, and slower

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  1. Casey Muratori Game and engine programmer
    They've got blog posts of we had to rewrite this whole thing because the performance was bad. If it was always hotspots that made your performance bad, you'd never have to rewrite the whole thing. So, we know that that doesn't work anymore.

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