26 Oct
2011
26 Oct
'11
11:04 a.m.
On 10/26/2011 01:27 PM, Richard wrote:
You're right that noone does it that way, but it's not because it's
"stupid" (which it isn't), it's because developers don't WANT to
work on
slow machines.
I sure don't. Do you?
Hardly. Every new function is a potential compatibility nit.
Richard, your attitude in the past few days has been even worse than
mine, and that's saying something. Is everything ok?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
I have no idea
what embedded systems are like these days, [...]
I do and the idea that sticking your developers on a resource limited
machine will make them produce better code for the embedded
environment is stupid and noone does it that way. If you are
programming shareware utilities you might want the code to work
on a large range of machines and operating system versions so code size and
speed might be optimized to work on older slower gear but you also might not
be able to user tools that need specific OS revisions to work.
Code size and speed are largely irrelevant to keeping the OS
compatability matrix working.