alt Hacker NewsIt sounds to me like you’re just arguing for premature optimization of another kind (specifically, prematurely changing your entire architecture for edge cases that probably won’t ever happen to you).
It sounds to me like you’re just arguing for premature optimization of another kind (specifically, prematurely changing your entire architecture for edge cases that probably won’t ever happen to you).
If you have an architecture already, obviously it's hard to change and you may want to postpone it until those edge cases which probably won't ever happen to you, happen. But for new architectures, value your own grey hairs over small performance improvements.