Revisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper

6 Bogdanp 2 6/20/2025, 1:37:26 AM probablydance.com ↗

Comments (2)

TZubiri · 2h ago
I don't think the quote is often misused, probably 97% of the times it is used correctly, but we should not ignore the 3% of the times when it is applied incorrectly
karmakaze · 50m ago
For those 97% the usage was YAGNI, the superset of premature optimizations.