Speed and benchmarks do not matter; at least, not the way we think
# On the last few weeks I have seen lots of discussions about speed in the Laravel community (and some other communities, for that matter) and I thought I share a few thoughts here. First, as developers I would say we are always going to think about performance — we want to write good code that is performant. Period. With that said, I also think it is easy to misunderstand where we need to make optimizations and where the problems lie. To be clear, I am thinking of a specific thread that...