alt Hacker NewsI think it’s making a case that normally you shouldn’t even bother benchmarking it, unless you know that it’s in a critical hot path.
I think it’s making a case that normally you shouldn’t even bother benchmarking it, unless you know that it’s in a critical hot path.
I must add that code is on the hot path only under two conditions:
- the application is profiled well enough to prove that some piece of code is on the hot path
- the developers are not doing a great job