execution speed (was speeding up xcode)
execution speed (was speeding up xcode)
- Subject: execution speed (was speeding up xcode)
- From: Robert Dell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:12:37 -0400
<Speed of execution should almost never be a priority for code intended to run on any remotely modern machine.>
this one comment is (in my opinion) what's wrong with the computer industry today. It appears that programmers think "they have tons of memory and loads of speed, why even try to optimize it". You get several programs written with that in mind and you soon run out of CPU power or memory and have to get newer updates to run on faster and faster machines, a neverending process.
When i went from Mac OS 7 to 8, the speed dropped. then i went to 9 and it dropped again. then to x and it dropped significantly. each update of OS makes my machine run slower and slower. each update of a program runs slower and slower. I can see a SLIGHT decrease of speed because of the increased capabilities of a system but not cutting the speed to 1/3 of the original speed in an update.
It's thoughts like the above comment that causes programs and operating systems to slow down. I sometimes wonder if we'd all see the need for newer and faster computers if everybody wrote their code as if it's running on a 48k, 1MHz machine.
Robert Dell
When in doubt, reinvent the wheel.
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