Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 1998 16:40:15 -0400 (EDT) | From | Mathieu Bouchard <> | Subject | Re: Remote fork() and Parallel programming |
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> > applications, programmer time. For any application where the comparison was > > close a few years ago, it is no longer close, and similarly any application > > which is a close call now won't be in a few years. > I don't see why we're bothering to produce high performance operating > systems then.
If you make a program waste 500k, and 100,000 users do use it, it's 50 gigs of harddisk wasted, which is worth several thousand bucks. From a holistic point of view, if you are worth 50$/hour and it takes you less than {several thousand bucks}/50 hours to do the optimization, well, why not?
From an hedonistic point of view, optimization is just plain fun.
matju
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