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		withinboredom on April 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I love programming but I hate the programming indu... I live by three steps when writing software: 1. Get it working. 2. Get it working well. 3. Get it working fast. Your last sentence reminded me of that.

apantel on April 21, 2024 [–]

This is the way to do it. First you want as complete coverage as possible with a unit test showing that the implementation is sound. Then you can try things and refactor for performance, checking as you go that you didn’t break anything.

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