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Originally Posted by Jay_ Completely agree. This whole optimization thing is major overkill. I think it originated from Y_Less in that huge code optimazitions thread that was later proven redundant when it was benchmarked.

Well he says himself that he completely agrees with that. I suppose people didn't realize the optimizations aren't needed in most cases, and should only be used if there are hot spots in your code (e.g. a loop that's ran thousands of times).