fixup! Add blog post about optimizations

_posts/2024-04-12-optimizations.md

@@ -481,9 +481,10 @@ collections should occur less often, which should improve the
 performance of the program.
 
 Because of the highly variable execution time for doing a garbage
-collection, it is notoriously difficult to benchmark optimizations that
-reduce the amount of garbage created. Often benchmark results don't
-generalize to doing the same operations in a real application.
+collection, it is notoriously difficult to benchmark optimizations
+that reduce the amount of garbage created. Often the outcomes of
+benchmarks do not apply to performing the same tasks in a real
+application.
 
 My own [anecdotal evidence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence)
 suggests that in most cases there are no measurable performance wins by