This seems to me a lot more reasonable, if not mandatory. 2007/2/20, Gonz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 >
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