-----Original Message----- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:11 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: VHS and Betamax
>No not entirely. The issue is that we're still in transition. The >hardware progress is not as fast as many of us would like and >sometimes we jump the gun with regard to wanting to be able to have >the Star Trek computer that we just tell what to do and it does it. So >if I build an application today and I fail to optimize it , then my >application is going to be slow in comparison to another application >which accomplishes the same task. (Incidentally I spend quite a bit of >my programming time thinking about the optimization of my software -- >I may not always get it right, but I do have a reasonable handle on >the concepts.) With genuine respect: I'm not sure that being in transition is relevant - we're always going to be. More horsepower generally seems to engender more complex applications rather than faster ones. Isaac, I wish it were otherwise, but with multi-core, multi-threaded processors/processes, I'm not sure that people CAN optimize software any longer. At least, at the code level. It just isn't cost-effective to spend days trying to tweak a block of code down to 200 cyles from 220 cycles. (unless you're John Carmack!) I can remember the days when it did matter (I wrote Assembler on a 360/40, circa 1967), but I just don't believe that that's the case any longer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237441 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
