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The Friday 2007-03-02 at 12:19 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> On Friday 02 March 2007 11:56, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > The Friday 2007-03-02 at 11:41 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > > 2. It is WRONG to rely on the speed of new hardware to make up
> > > > for bad programming.
> > >
> > > The very notion is nonsense.
> >
> > I don't think so. It is quite true, in general.
>
> Que es mas macho? Pineapple or knife?
> -- Laurie Anderson
Nver heard that.
> It's nonsense since there's no relationship between program/ming quality
> and hardware speed. If anything, faster hardware (and especially
> multi-processor or multi-core systems) can expose certain kinds of
> programming errors that remain latent in lower-performance hardware.
The relation is that with faster hardware programmers don't have to trim
their programs. They can allow their programs to be huge, repetitive,
non-optimized, because the hardware is faster, disks are bigger, and the
diference will be hardly noticed.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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