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>From my reading, this guy is advocating the exact opposte: optimize as you code.

Huh? He had ALREADY written his library before he started optimizing.

He even says that the profiler didn't show much, because he had all parsing code inside one big function.



No, those were just the optimizations he listed, he never said he hadn't optimize before.


>he never said he hadn't optimize before.

And he never said he _did_ optimize before.

Which kinda defeats the complain in the parent comment that he advocates optimize as you program.


But he does: that's what his "benchmark drive development" is all about. He even starts by benchmarking an empty function!




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