> From: Robin Whittle <[email protected]>
>> In a system which is designed for a very long lifetime, design for the
>> outer envelope of technology today - because tomorrow's will be a lot
>> more capable.
> I entirely agree with you on this. I will be tempted to cite it as:
> ...
> If there is a practical way of getting mapping in real-time to local
> full-database query servers
Hardware improvements often cannot beat _scaling_ issues (such as keeping up
with growth in the size of a full database).
I mean, scaling issues are the reason we are here now, right?
I was talking about relying on more capable hardware in pushing for more
advanced _functionality_ - the example that brought up the above was doing
crypto in portable devices.
Noel
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