Beating the CompilerWe should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even then don't unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest. We spend a lot of our time in the modern, web services-driven technology industry ignoring perf
