I’m not talking about skill, knowledge, or convincing a world focused on radical acceleration that optimization is necessary. Performance optimization is hard because it’s fundamentally a brute-force task, and there’s nothing you can do about it. This post is a bit of a rant on my frustrations with code optimization. I’ll also try to give actionable advice, which I hope enchants your experience.
  • KissakiEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Performance optimization is hard because it’s fundamentally a brute-force task, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

    I think that only takes effect after a certain degree of best practices, knowable practices and effects, and after educated guesses and theories with testing. That’s a lot before you reach brute force territory. At least in typical and higher-level programming language development.