On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:10:51AM -0500, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > Moore's law is a complete strawman. It doesn't speed up existing hardware. > Nor do we get anywhere near a 30% performance boost every 6 months (or even > the every 18 of Moore's law fame). Memory latency and bandwidth are the > bottleneck these days, and Moore doesn't help them much. If you were to > tell my employer we needed to buy 30% more boxes, with all associated costs > in hosting and maintenance, they'd fire me. >
THANK you! > And I do say that about interpreted languages as well. > What?!! Back off, bub! OK, not quite that, but interpreted languages like perl and Tcl (can't speak to the others) are quite fast when excessive looping and computation are avoided; in Tcl (at least) when computation or looping become a bottleneck, the routine can be rewritten in C/C++ and made a Tcl command; and the developer time saved in prototyping and developing far outweighs in cost any runtime "delays" (usually a matter of a 1.5 sec wait instead of a .05 sec wait, if that) that the users cumulatively suffer. Reaching for C as a knee-jerk choice is the mark of an inexperienced manager. And if you _must_ use C all the time, why aren't you using an assembler? -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 Tcl/Tk Enthusiast -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
