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"A classic blunder in optimization was committed some years ago by one of the major software vendors."
"Cyclomatic complexity is often referred to simply as program complexity"
"Because optimization often relies on making use of special cases and performing complex trade offs an optimized program can often be more difficult for programmers to comprehend, which can contain in more faults than the unoptimized version."
"Don't optimize as you write. Why not? Because, in all probability, you're wasting your time. The VAST majority of the code programmers optimize is executed so rarely that its total speedup to the program can be measured only in nanoseconds."