Performance anti patterns

Question

I am currently working for a client who are petrified of changing lousy un-testable and un-maintainable code because of \"performance reasons\". It is clear t

Answer 1

Premature performance optimizations comes to mind. I tend to avoid performance optimizations at all costs and when I decide I do need them I pass the issue around to my collegues several rounds trying to make sure we put the obfu... eh optimization in the right place.