Agreed. Premature optimization is about "maybe", and feared performance loss.
Responsiveness matters to users; to them, speed is a feature, insofar as they can perceive it. The "JQuery tax" absolutely is a real, and user-perceptible issue.
"Avoiding premature optimization" can sometimes make it hard to undo poor design choices made early on that could have been avoided.
> Responsiveness matters to users; to them, speed is a feature, insofar as they can perceive it. The "JQuery tax" absolutely is a real, and user-perceptible issue.
I think the evil of premature optimization is attacking the wrong target first. 80ms isn't a small amount, but moving script tags around could have more potential side effects than say using proper caching, minifying etc
Responsiveness matters to users; to them, speed is a feature, insofar as they can perceive it. The "JQuery tax" absolutely is a real, and user-perceptible issue.
"Avoiding premature optimization" can sometimes make it hard to undo poor design choices made early on that could have been avoided.