[Ayjay]

I really haven't seen this problem, like, ever. All coder's are vastly more likely to preoptimise the hell out of everything, and we end up with the opposite problem - thousands of hours of wasted programmer time won't even reach 1 saved hour of user time. Bear in mind as well that the actual speed of execution isn't always the main cause of perceived slowness - if something runs 10 times as slowly, but runs in the background and never causes the user to wait, it's actually running infinitely faster, from the users perspective.

A much better solution is to write things in the easiest way for coders to change - that way, when something is found to be the actual cause of slowness, anyone can easily go in and optimise it or move it to a background thread. Optimising EVERYTHING in the hopes of obtaining speed is a fool's errand - due to the 90/10 rule, 90% of the code you optimise will never be the bottleneck.

-- Ayjay on Fedang/coding