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If you’re benchmarking your function down to the microsecond then maybe it matters, otherwise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The only time I’ve ever cared about this was when writing very optimized encoders/decoders for binary formats

In what language? JS? it's used extremely heavily in the current compiler, very fast in Go, they are basically just turned into top level functions by the compiler (kinda)