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by bryanrasmussen 27 days ago
https://medium.com/luminasticity/on-premature-optimization-i...

wanders a bit around the premature optimization history, but later has

>Nowadays almost all development is for things that are not necessary. Pretty much all modern development is for things that are entertainment....The difference between things that are necessary and entertainment is that you will wait however long it takes to do the necessary thing

in the reductive view of the article everything that is not necessary is termed entertainment.

But I have noticed this. I often drop useful things because it just isn't worth it to wait. So the argument really is, in today's world, speed is almost always the most important factor anything accessed through the computer can have.