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		Revisiting Knuth's "Premature Optimization" Paper (probablydance.com)
		9 points by Bogdanp on June 20, 2025 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

TZubiri on June 20, 2025 [–]

I don't think the quote is often misused, probably 97% of the times it is used correctly, but we should not ignore the 3% of the times when it is applied incorrectly

karmakaze on June 20, 2025 | [–]

For those 97% the usage was YAGNI, the superset of premature optimizations.

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