The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009)
And yet, the large organizations with R&amp;D firms—making the most exciting greenfield software—almost exclusively focus their engineering efforts on squeezing the most software out of the lowest amount of hardware. They care deeply about every CPU cycle.<p>You could argue that the fallacy of premature optimization has fallen many a line of business app. But if you&#x27;re an engineer and you aspire for greatness, microoptimize. That&#x27;s the rarer, harder-earned, harder-to-learn skill.