tobi lutke on X: "Sunday rant. For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write th

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It’s an account of how SQLite became 50% faster, not by doing one specific thing but hundreds of small ones. SQLite is everywhere today because of this work. https://sqlite-users.sqlite.narkive.com/CVRvSKBs/50-faster-than-3-7-17#