Posted on 07/30/2010 12:19:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
And after the HW guys do their thing, you software geeks come along and bloat the code up some more, and bring the hardware back down to a crawl.
The never ending cycle.
It faster than a GM Volt.
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How about Weeds, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, Dr. Who, Eureka, and the Office?
There is always youtube...see above links.
Yep, it happens. First you get it working, although it might be a resource hog. Then you find the hot spots and optimize the code and memory usage.
There are also errors to consider... the CICS system software I wrote devoted a bunch of code to error detection / handling / messages, and so forth. You only take an OLTP system down because something catastrophic has happened. :-)
- Big, inefficient and correct is tolerable in limited situations
- Small, efficient and buggy is a no-no
- As long as you're correct, there should be a reasonable trade-off between the other two options.
BFLR
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