On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote:
It was fun optimizing/ tuning your software, when computers cost thousand of
dollars, and the only thing which would make them go faster
was to work on the algorithms.
Now, it is much easier to make it faster. Just buy a faster bigger one, and
you don't have to worry about it ...
"Throw hardware at it."
I maintain that no matter how fast it is, there are still situations where
it would be important to be even faster than the extra hardware can be
with inefficient code. And, no matter how fast it is, there are those who
will slow it down by such things as downloading unwanted advertising along
with the content, . . .
No matter how big it is, it is still going to be possible to come up with
more data than will fit in RAM. Suchas Google's data, or the NSA
LottaByte data center. Or modeling weather?
