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> Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

That is itself a premature optimization.

"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%"

Also worth noting that Knuth attributes this to Tony Hoare as "Hoare's Dictum" (possibly by mistake).



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