9 Things Every Fresh Graduate Should Know About Software Performance
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Fresh graduates should prioritize maintainability before optimization, while understanding when performance is critical. The most valuable performance lessons include: profiling instead of guessing, focusing on hotspots, defaulting to std::vector, distinguishing between throughput and latency, and recognizing hardware bottlenecks as the final frontier in optimization.
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