25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
5:55 p.m.
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Fred Cisin wrote:
Software HAS gotten bigger.
Software has gotten SLOWER.
"Nobody programs in assembly language anymore, nor ever will again."
- Clancy and Harvey (UC Berkeley)
"If it isn't fast enough, throw hardware at it."
- MICROS~1
I lost all respect for one of our programmers when after explaining why
I implemented a feature a certain way because it was faster, she asked
"Why don't you just run it on a faster computer?"
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
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