13 Apr
2011
13 Apr
'11
11:32 a.m.
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Keith Monahan wrote:
We were asked at my local university not all that long
ago, by an
otherwise bright CS professor, "What was the easiest way to speed up
your application?" We raised our hands and mentioned several ways of
optimizing the code. His answer was "just wait, and the processors will
get faster, so your application will run faster."
I've been waiting and waiting, but THIS Windoze machine keeps getting
slower!
Alas, reliance on Moore's law is becoming common. It was recognized and
accepted 25 years ago at MICROS~1.
no need to write it in assembly or otherwise,
<sigh>
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com