Vince,
I've read some of your observations and you are absolutely right.
Disk/SSD is cheap. The processors are very snappy and barely get warm.
No Cray needed to keep things running smoothly.
I grew up at a time when some of my classmates were working with
space-hardened hardware and exceptionally limited memory requiring very
careful design analysis of the project and storage, and cpu energy was
allocated carefully. Weather Satellite stuff. And those who got the
jobs to work on those U of Wis projects were the cream of the crop at
squeezing performance and space out of what they were given. The
bragging rights for having served on those projects was what drove many
of them. The rest of us went on to other jobs.
That being said, a leopard has a hard time changing its spots. I still
re-use plastic bags and anti-static material, just an old habit that I
feel happier doing.
I have no ability to tweak the database as some of those here are doing,
but am interested in the basic science of doing so.
There was a fellow by the name of Steve Gibson who did almost everything
in assembler, even doing some Windows API stuff just to show it could be
done. A few minutes with the Windows toolkit got months of his work
done. He just did it for fun.
The development team keeping WeeWx fun and interesting and decide the
future are not burdened with hacking every compound word. You guys just
make new things happen and keep the stuff we use working incredibly
well, to which I say thank you very much. I'd rather you do that than
try to please a small handful who want a few kilobytes smaller database.
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