https://grey-panther.net/2009/02/dont-overthink-software-security.html Just another WordPress site Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:42:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://grey-panther.net/2009/02/dont-overthink-software-security.html#comment-494 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:42:11 +0000 https://grey-panther.net/?p=416#comment-494 “Premature optimization is the root of all evil” as Donald Knuth said. But also, leaving out (mostly) useless features is a no brainer and the fact that it improves performance is just an added benefit.

]]> https://grey-panther.net/2009/02/dont-overthink-software-security.html#comment-496 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:24:45 +0000 https://grey-panther.net/?p=416#comment-496 If we have lived in an optimized world it would be too boring. The same is with software – we’d love to see optimized code and make things work quickly. What we have though are websites with over 100 SQL queries for a single website without any special effects.

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