14 Oct
2011
14 Oct
'11
10:34 a.m.
On 10/14/2011 12:50 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
...which is why I work almost exclusively in the embedded space now,
when doing software. It's the last refuge for people who care about
(sometimes to an obsessive degree, as in my case) the efficiency of
software.
I'm quite certain that the last few people who know anything about
code optimization (and I don't mean "putting -O in cc's argument list)
will die in our generation, and the current disturbing trend of horrible
grinding, lumbering, bloated slowness will continue to worsen.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
Are coders and
managers realizing that the hype on the "high level"
languages on speed of development
causing real slow downs in performance
In a word, no.
Time to market and 'refactoring' trumps performance.
The only place this seems to be a concern is in the embedded/mobile space
where they can't throw MIPS at the problem because of power considerations.