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But their product survived and they ended up being wildly successful.

In a lot of projects, early optimization hurt the development speed and maintainability, sometimes killing the product.

It is easier to see performance bottlenecks once a product is wildly used than adding optimizations everywhere we suspect it might become a problem later.



Firefox is not wildly successful. I think you misunderstood the comment.


I did




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