When to care about performance
Many languages and frameworks have been designed to make developers more productive. This is a good thing, but it has a side effect: it makes developers less aware of the performance implications of their code. While hardware has been getting faster and faster over the years, the place software has taken in our lives has also been growing. In the end, the performance of the code we write is still important, and it’s important to know when to care about it (and when not to)....