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  • Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.

    "Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 1974.
  • We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

  • We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

  • Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

    Donald Ervin Knuth (1986). “TEX: The Program”, Addison-Wesley Professional
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Donald Knuth

  • Born: January 10, 1938
  • Occupation: Computer Scientist