On 2015-01-20 05:35, Felix Miata wrote:
Claudio Freire composed on 2015-01-20 00:58 (UTC-0300):
So, why make a huge effort to avoid writing a few blocks if it's not going to report any benefit?
Huge effort? A few here, a few there. Maybe it doesn't seem so with electrons, but it does consume energy to make them move. Waste not, want not.
He refers to the programming effort needed to change this.
I only ever thought about $SUBJECT as a result of remembering the FATE. Here is a possibility of hitting multiple targets hit with one shot, instituting policy that induces less waste.
If it is a programming practice, you can not influence programmers much. And you'd have to find exactly why this is happening, case by case. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)