Ah, now the excuse for being slow is "tradeoff".

"Slow" means nothing without context. The proper context is the performance, productivity, future maintainability, debuggability and a bunch of other factors in relation to the given business requirements and goals.

	▲	holowoodman 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The current context is compiler optimizations, as per the original article. That means we are talking about performance as a compiler produces it (or doesn't).