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Significantly increasing performance is one of the most rewarding tasks in software development, comparable only to deleting unused code. At least for me.

However, for most business applications, it doesn’t bring much value. Modern hardware allows a lot of inneficiencies, and having some step few seconds faster or slower won’t matter much. In the last decade I spent maybe a day per year improving performance.

However, when I worked on some mini games recently performance was important since day 1. And I got a lot of joy from that process, programming was fun again!