Macro Pierre White says "perfection is lots of little things done well."

Which is something I've always agreed with, so, I never understand articles that seek to eschew an important part of releasing software because they believe their approach elsewhere is enough to overcome these intentionally suboptimal choices.

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yakshaving_jgt 4 days ago | parent [-]

Almost all of professional software should be intentionally suboptimal.

This is what we mean when we say that premature optimisation is the root of all evil.

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FridgeSeal 3 days ago | parent [-]

We ought to ban people saying that quote, due to the way it has been abused to avoid considering performance _at all_.

“Intentionally suboptimal” is also a strange way of phrasing it, as it makes it sound a bit like you’re intentionally building something bad, as opposed to “only as good as it needs to be”.

	▲	yakshaving_jgt 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		In general I avoid considering performance at all. Instead, I focus on adding testing and instrumentation. When the telemetry tells me I have a performance problem, then I can solve that part while being confident that the performance improvement doesn't change the functionality because I first invested in tests.