ttp://blog.ashodnakashian.com/2011/06/the-second-law-of-optimization-abridged/ Premature optimization; Most of us have been there. And that’s what makes those words very familiar. Words of wisdom, if you will. We’ve all decided to do a smart trick or two before fleshing out the algorithm and even checking if it compiles, let alone checking the result, only to be dumbfounded by the output. I can figure it out! we declare… and after half a day, we’d be damned if we rewrote that stupid function from scratch. No chance, bub.