Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:27:06 +0200 | From | Andrej Presern <> | Subject | Re: Remote fork() and Parallel programming |
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Jeffrey B. Siegal wrote: > > >Which is going to cost more: programmer time that you pay for once, or > >the total amount of resources that are going to be wasted over the > >lifetime of the operating system (and applications that are based on the > >OS, [recurse])? > > To a greater and greater extent, for more and more (though certainly not all) > 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.
Andrej
-- Andrej Presern, andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si
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