On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> - When the "huge horde of balances" pop up to be recomputed, it may
> very well be that this indicates that something is wrong. There
> should not be thousands of things getting recomputed.
Yes, there was something wrong. Some computer changed the number of shares
that I purchased. When I corrected it, it had to recompute a number of years
worth of balances.
> - The bottleneck may _still_ not be with monetary arithmetic.
>
> If the GUI has to generate a thousand lines worth of register
> items, it won't be the monetary items that are the problem, but
> rather setting up the register widget.
> The real point here is that so long as we _consider_ efficiency,
> it does not necessarily have to be the _only_ consideration.
Agreed.
> If we wind up with numeric operations being only half as efficient,
But you better worry about an order of magnitude slower. That is the kind of
differences that I have seen in other situations.
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