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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.202412.7266@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:24:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct29.153514.22927@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky) writes:
- :
- :I write programs for correctness and maintainability first, THEN worry
- :about little details such as performance. If you create something that's
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- You've probably never done any large scale computing.
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- I measure the run time of my algorithms in MIPS-YEARS. A MIPS-YEAR
- is a 1 MIPS machine running for 1 year, or approximately 3.1 x 10^13
- instructions. Jobs that take several hundred MIPS-YEARS are not uncommon.
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- Needless to say, there are people who have to worry about speed FIRST,
- and that other considerations are (almost) irrelevent.
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- I wish you people would stop insulting Herman simply because his requirements
- leads to code that is different from your petty and self-righteous
- pre-conceived notions about coding style.
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- :wrong, or that has to be scrapped in a year because nobody can understand
- :it, who cares how fast it runs?
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- Not everyone writes commercial code, or code for customers. Maybe it's
- a research project that will end in a year. Stop being so provincial.
-
- --
- Bob Silverman
- These are my opinions and not MITRE's.
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