In the last post, I wrote some notes about code optimization using Rcpp and C++. However, I forgot to add one main thought related to this topic: “The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don’t do it. The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!): Don’t do it yet.” I agree with that statement, and I made this mistake more than dozen times. I spent hours on optimizing the code, trying to get the results faster, and I most cases I succeed.