John Simpson butting in: At the risk of starting another of those tedious "I remember when ...." sagas. I can recall loading the a program into the 16 kb of ram in my TRS80 from an audio casette recorder took so long that I could mow the lawn while I waited, only to come back and find that the very critical volume control setting had been knocked and the whole process had to be done again. Those were the days, my lawns have never been so well groomed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vik Olliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 6:50 PM Subject: Proposal for MIPEs
> Having waited for ages for a Linux application to load, I suggest a new > unit, the MIPE; Meaningless Indicator of Program Efficiency. > > This measures is the product of the CPU use percentage and time taken to > run an application and is so in a unit of %s, which makes it a real > bugger for 'C' programmers to print. > > A good, efficient program will have a low MIPE value, as it either loads > rapidly or at least does not use much CPU while it is initialising > itself. A bad program uses all the CPU all of the time, just like some > of these blasted bloat apps we're seeing these days. > > I shall now stick myself in a warm bath, calm down, and think of fluffy > bunnies frolicking in clouds until the nice men in white coats come > around with my new long-sleeved jacket. > > Vik :v) > >
