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by rswail 2554 days ago
This. If I'm in embedded land, especially hard real time, I don't care how quick something is, as long as it complies with the real time requirements.

Programmers will endlessly prematurely optimize. I'd much prefer to see simple code that can be understood and optimized where needed, rather than squirrely code that runs fast but is unmaintainable.