At my work we have to count bytes very carefully. Our product has to analyze objects with tens or even hundreds of millions of entities in real time, the representation of those entities has to be very compact, otherwise you can run out of memory quickly. The inner most loop of the program itself has to be extremely efficient, otherwise an inefficiency somewhere can cost hours of CPU time. And we are competing with other vendors who are trying to get any margin of speed or memory advantage to make a sale.
rg On 2/19/07, Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today it is the opposite, I realize at school teachers always tought > us that performance wasn't a big deal since power of computers was > going up so much anyway. > > In my limited experience, it made people not care at all about > performance which is pretty puch stupid. Of course spending a byte > more or less here and there is a silly question but no care about > performance !? > > Never understood their POV. Maybe it goes all too fast for them ;) > > > 2007/2/19, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I worked on projects where saving a couple of bytes in a character > > string ended up in hardware/storage savings figures in the Millions of > > dollars. The Y2K problem was mostly the result of that kind of analysis. > > > > Bruce Dayton wrote: > > > Kind of reminds me of the Y2K problem - the older programmers thought > > > they wouldn't need to deal with it, so didn't...until... > > > > > > Since you know you are going to end up with the problem, why not just > > > come up with a solution now, instead of having to go back and fix it > > > later? The solutions aren't really too tough. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > > > The more I know of men, the more I like my dog. > > -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > -- > > Thibault Massart aka Thibouille > ---------------------- > *ist-D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
