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Why performance optimization is hard work (purplesyringa.moe)

submitted 1 day ago by learnbyexample to c/programming

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[–] Kissaki 3 points 1 day ago

Performance optimization is hard because it’s fundamentally a brute-force task, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

I think that only takes effect after a certain degree of best practices, knowable practices and effects, and after educated guesses and theories with testing. That's a lot before you reach brute force territory. At least in typical and higher-level programming language development.