On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 09:02:02AM -0700, Brian Aker wrote: > Here is another question though... one may be faster, but which one can > we maintain? Processor speed is going up, one memory fetch can equal how > many operations? > > If we make it so that only a few people can look at the code... or that > the few that can have to spend hours on it... fast is required, but what > happens to maintenance?
Clean interfaces is the answer. Have the tricky-dicky really performance sensitive stuff behind a clean API to be used everywhere else. -- Stewart Smith _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

