Why You Should Avoid Sass @extend

It is good to read more articles about the gotchas with @extend. The use case for relationships in the comments is interesting too.

I do have two questions though, re ‘Extending is not necessarily better than mixins regarding performance’:

  1. We have come to learn that .unnecessary .levels .of .class .specificity can be detrimental to performance - do lists/combined selectors suffer the same? (By which I mean the .really, .long, .class, .groupings, . caused, .by @extend)

  2. What if you are not gzipping?