Apply Knuth's Optimization Principle when someone wants to optimize code before establishing it's a bottleneck, is using complex data structures for perceived performance, is making code harder to read "for speed", or is debating whether to optimize something that hasn't been profiled. Trigger on ph
Apply Knuth's Optimization Principle when someone wants to optimize code before establishing it's a bottleneck, is using complex data structures for perceived performance, is making code harder to read "for speed", or is debating whether to optimize something that hasn't been profiled. Trigger on phrases like "I should make this faster", "let's pre-optimize this", "I used X instead of Y for perfor