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- From: toma@baritone (Thomas Arneberg {66642 CF/DEV})
- Subject: Re: C specific editor (was Re: C/C++ Speed)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.170604.10808@walter.cray.com>
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan17.041622.5602@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <47740001@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:06:03 CST
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- In article <47740001@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> elw@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Eddie Williamson) writes:
- >----------
- >> The net result is that in the *real* real world, efficiency is *always*
- >> important. In the synthetic real world imagined by acedemics, you can wave
- >----------
- >I agree! (with the second paragraph)
- >Most real world customers can't affort to go out and buy the latest
- >hardware every time they buy new application software. They live with
- >what they already have. Don't make excuses for being lazy. Design your
- >software from the beginning with efficiency in mind. You'll end up
-
- Well, I guess you'll have to call me "lazy." Maybe you can say that
- "efficiency is always important"...but sometimes, program development time
- is MORE important! The turnaround time from the idea of writing a program
- to getting working code is also a concern here in the *real* real world.
- Another factor is writing easy-to-debug and easy-to-maintain code.
-
- If I write a program that I know will be run on a given computer (usually
- someone's personal workstation with lots of extra cycles), and I know it
- will only take a few seconds to run, I have no incentive to make it run as
- fast as possible. But I have a huge incentive to get the program running as
- SOON as possible, so I can write more of them in a give amount of calendar
- time.
-
- - Tom A.
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