I’ve had code review pushback against reorganizing data structures to be more cache-friendly on the grounds that it was “premature optimization” even though I pre-emotively justified the decision with benchmark results indicating that the performance difference was large and business relevant, and addressed a real performance bottleneck that I observed during testing.
This was on a team and at a time where Clean Code was very popular. I somewhat wonder if the problem is that, in the 2010s, many people became convinced that certain aesthetic standards were both objectively, provably correct, and more important than anything else.
This was on a team and at a time where Clean Code was very popular. I somewhat wonder if the problem is that, in the 2010s, many people became convinced that certain aesthetic standards were both objectively, provably correct, and more important than anything else.