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What is the performance impact of excessive category usage in large codebases?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Categories increase runtime complexity and risk method collisions.
Deep explanation
Large-scale category usage leads to unpredictable method overrides, increased binary load time, and debugging complexity. Since categories merge at runtime, conflicts are resolved by load order, which is not deterministic.
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