On: What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)

[stouset]

This is true of literally anything and everything your compiler emits. In practice the functional style is much easier to optimize to a far greater degree than the imperative style.

[tvier → stouset]

This is why you shouldn't get into arguments about performance on the internet without highly specified execution environments.

I'm going to take my own advice and go back to work :)