>So you've:
>1) spent time discussing this on a message board
>2) disrupted your momentum
>3) Introduced extra code that will have to be understood and maintained
>
>for a possible sliver of a teensy optimization that might not even be an optimization?
>
>Premature optimization is the devil.

I was changing the code anyway to a new way and while changing it that was a minor issue I got concerned about.