I regret to inform you that member initialization lists will not make your program noticeably faster. The point of this post is to vent, so it is highly opinionated. Style-based performance optimizations are a waste of time Good fundamentals are more important than micro-optimizations Compile and test times are vastly underrated For some reason, code / function generalization is valued higher than ergonomics or real performance. I form this opinion based on experiences with: The near-constant...
