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		aequitas on July 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You've only added two lines – why did that take tw... This can also go suprisingly wrong when management decides code size is the performance metric needed to improve the site and hires a "performance engineer" who abolishes all structure and abstraction in the code, making it near-impossible to debug and maintain. But at least it runs fast.

arendtio on July 14, 2020 [–]

True, the quest to reach a small file size can also lead to various down-sides. Cryptic architectures and weird code are just two popular symptoms.

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