Optimizing optimizing: some insights that led to a 400% speedup of PowerDNS
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So no matter how pretty your code, eventually someone will <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/benchmark" target="_blank">benchmark</a> it and demand top performance. Squeezing microseconds is a very addictive and even destructive activity. It ruins your evenings, destroys your ability to converse with human beings and typically leaves your code in a mess.