Always validate performance changes through profiling or benchmarking before implementation, and favor memory-efficient patterns when making optimizations. Key practices:

  1. Profile before/after significant changes:
    // Before changing buffer sizes, validate impact:
    const SCROLLBACK_LEN: usize = 1024;
    // Profile current performance
    // Test new value
    const SCROLLBACK_LEN: usize = 2048;
    // Validate no significant regression
    
  2. Use memory-efficient patterns:
  3. Document performance-critical decisions with benchmarks or profiling results to justify changes.