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   Harry Potter to Niklas Lindholm   
   Re: Looking moremore optimizations!   
   27 Oct 18 09:41:55   
   
   On Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 12:12:02 PM UTC-4, Niklas Lindholm wrote:   
   > So what is it that you want to optimize for? Speed? Memory footprint? IO?   
   >   
   Size.   
      
   > You usually optimize something becuase there is an issue identified that you   
   > want to improve.   
   >   
   It is not currently necessary here.  I just like optimizing.  :)   
      
   > There's a famous quote by Donald Knuth:   
   >   "The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying   
   >    about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature   
   >    optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in   
   >    programming."   
      
   That's true.  Again, I just like optimizing.  :)   
      
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