Optimization can often lead to code that is harder to read, test and maintain. You are right saying that is the task of an programmer to understand the code. But I would not like to work in such code. Moreover in times of huge in-memory-databases, memory is not as expensive as programmers maintaining and extending the code.
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Optimization can often lead to code that is harder to read, test and maintain. You are right saying that is the task of an programmer to understand the code. But I would not like to work in such code. Moreover in times of huge in-memory-databases, memory is not as expensive as programmers maintaining and extending the code.