On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 02:32:34PM -0700, Gill, Kathy wrote:
(Quoting a study on software usage patterns)
> I reported in TCC 8.26.2 that 45% of a typical application's features
> are never used.
The usage also depends on how bloated the package is -- an application
with a myriad of little-used (perhaps because of obscurity, complexity,
or lack of need) features scores higher on this scale than one which
is tightly designed and written. GNU Emacs, an incredibly large text
editor with extensions to read mail, news, debug code, etc., is probably
the champion in this category in the Unix world. It's a darn good thing
that on all modern Unixes it's demand-paged. ;-)
This is also a good observation to keep in mind when optimizing code --
it's not enough to see which routines take the most time, but one must
combine that information with which routines are called most often.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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