-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-02 at 12:19 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 02 March 2007 11:56, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2007-03-02 at 11:41 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
2. It is WRONG to rely on the speed of new hardware to make up for bad programming.
The very notion is nonsense.
I don't think so. It is quite true, in general.
Que es mas macho? Pineapple or knife? -- Laurie Anderson
Nver heard that.
It's nonsense since there's no relationship between program/ming quality and hardware speed. If anything, faster hardware (and especially multi-processor or multi-core systems) can expose certain kinds of programming errors that remain latent in lower-performance hardware.
The relation is that with faster hardware programmers don't have to trim their programs. They can allow their programs to be huge, repetitive, non-optimized, because the hardware is faster, disks are bigger, and the diference will be hardly noticed. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF6I/4tTMYHG2NR9URApAeAJ4g+n6GDuvHw8jdteUm8yQgRbdBFwCfZccp /E0IaXQx9StRkt6R1NfkPEw= =w2O+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org