It’s weird how functional fans always tell you something, and then the moment you start calling them on it, they say “no you!”

According to functional programmers, all optimization is premature optimization, unless your program is “noticeably slow”. What is “noticeably slow” you might ask, and the answer is: nobody knows!

Being able to type faster than VSCode registers your keystrokes is not “noticeably slow”. This counts as “fast enough”.

Processing 10,000 lines of data in 5 minutes is fast enough. Just make it a task and toss it on a highly parallel cluster, then you won’t notice that this should take milliseconds, move on to the next thing.

While you’re contemplating what “noticeably slow” means, let’s also toss up some articles claiming Haskell is faster than C, but not providing any evidence for said claim, contrary to the countless measurements demonstrating the falseness of this claim.

>it’s not significant compared to

Is that really what our counter argument is? That by the time your ill-conceived images download on a clean browser cache, your garbage code may have finished generating the DOM? You regularly build apps that you expect people to use once and fill said apps with large images?