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ookblah on Aug 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization

This.

And to add, it's important to to decouple pieces of your project so that it's easy to refactor and optimize parts as you get to them.

bnegreve on Aug 15, 2011 [–]

However, optimization comes from "re-coupling" very often. see for example : monolithic kernels (monolithic, fast) vs micro kernel (decoupled, slow). If you really want something efficient, you'll have to think about it from the very beginning.

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