title: What is the most ridiculous pessimization you've seen?
body: <p>We all know that premature optimization is the root of all evil because it leads to unreadable/unmaintainable code.  Even worse is pessimization, when someone implements an "optimization" because they <em>think</em> it will be faster, but it ends up being slower, as well as being buggy, unmaintainable, etc.  What is the most ridiculous example of this that you've seen?</p>