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I’d also add that performance needs to be balanced with readability and engineering hours, and considered in context.
I have plenty of code that would be asymptotically catastrophic, but only runs once a day on off hours over a physically limited dataset.
Your post is a very good contribution to the realization that we’re supposed to use data and rules to inform our decisions, not to stop us from thinking.