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Efficiency

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

[Knuth, Donald. Structured Programming with go to Statements, ACM Journal Computing Surveys, Vol 6, No. 4, Dec. 1974. p.268.]

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