Steve Canon on Nostr: Apropos of nothing in particular, I would like to remind everyone of one of the first ...

Apropos of nothing in particular, I would like to remind everyone of one of the first things I learned in my career as a math library developer:

“Prioritizing performance over correctness” is a nonsense clause. Talking about the performance of an incorrect system is meaningless. You are measuring nothing. A system has to produce a correct answer before you can talk about how efficiently it does it.