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  1. Path: keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail
  2. From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: COLLEGE PROFESSORS! # 2/2
  5. Date: 17 Apr 1996 22:10:22 -0700
  6. Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
  7. Message-ID: <4l4iruINN8ae@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
  8. References: <8BEC555.02C70031C4.uuout@sourcebbs.com> <Pine.A32.3.91.960417134130.26474G-100000@red.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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  11. In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960417134130.26474G-100000@red.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
  12. The Amorphous Mass  <robinson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
  13. >  There _is_ no harm is wasting a few microseconds, if it makes the code 
  14. >clearer (which avoids wasting a few days, or weeks, or months spent 
  15.  
  16. You think that it's actually possible to waste execution time to the
  17. granularity of microseconds in Visual Basic? (on current hardware...)
  18.