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> Deferring on performance work

I'll be curious to see how this plays out. History seems to show that boosting performance later is a monumental challenge.

Early Chrome showed that Firefox was leaving a lot of performance on the table, and it took Firefox a long time to catch up.

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But their product survived and they ended up being wildly successful.

In a lot of projects, early optimization hurt the development speed and maintainability, sometimes killing the product.

It is easier to see performance bottlenecks once a product is wildly used than adding optimizations everywhere we suspect it might become a problem later.

Firefox is not wildly successful. I think you misunderstood the comment.

I did

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