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Anakata
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At what point do you stop overthinking random code optimizations and move on to the next task?

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    I usually go with, first make it work then make it go fast if necessary, preferrably you should get a benchmark from the first solution so you can actually prove the improvement
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    If you're not measuring performance, you're not optimising. If you don't have a target performance, there's no need to optimise, so just make it work. Otherwise, if you're actually working on a performance critical piece of work, you need to be profiling, then it's only worth optimizing the top few functions in terms of runtime cost.
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    When it doesn’t matter anymore e.g the impact on user experience is irrelevant
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