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		pakled_engineer on April 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop Misquoting Donald Knuth He did, in one of those 'All Questions Answered' talks and I can't remember in which talk he answered it https://youtu.be/CDokMxVtB3k https://youtu.be/xLBvCB2kr4Q https://youtu.be/pa7sEVRYV7U Prof. Hegarty (Stanford) explains what premature optimization is and why you shouldn't do it to further clear this up. https://youtu.be/mFhiaTW2jgg

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