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

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