On 30 Mar 2010, Juliusz Chroboczek verbalised:

>> Not, I suspect, to any detectable degree, on modern hardware.
>
> While that's not unlikely, it's quite besides the point.  Polipo is
> a horribly over-optimised piece of software, and I happen to like it
> this way.

OK, as long as you *know* that :)

> Think of Polipo as a political statement against Pike's rules of program
> optimization [1].

Hah!

> [1] Rule 1: Don't do it.
>     Rule 2: Don't do it yet.

My Rule 3 has always been 'make sure you can do it when the time comes';
i.e. don't let rules 1 and 2 seduce you into compromising your design.

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