14 Oct
2011
14 Oct
'11
11:37 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
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.
The slowness is due to complexity, which is inherent in user-centric
software. If the program is going to be user friendly, it's going to have to
anticipate a user's needs and respond in a logical fashion. Each option you
give the user increases the complexity of code, sometimes exponentially.