And as I read these posts, I see above "Code for elegance, code for clarity".
To me, elegant code works correctly, and works efficiently. This is something that I've had to work hard at with my recent project. Taking code that works, and making it code that works faster is how I found my 'elegant' code. But now, I'm leaving it alone since there is little more that can be done without making some of the code unreadable. Someone else may have to look at this down the line, it shouldn't be impossible (just very difficult).