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- From: John@boole.uucp (John Ahlstrom)
- Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.191031.527@boole.uucp>
- Organization: Boole & Babbage, Inc.
- References: <BwJ4uz.1rA@rice.edu> <1992Oct23.004313.29196@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Oct29.153514.22927@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> <1992Nov5.202412.7266@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:10:31 GMT
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- In <1992Nov5.202412.7266@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
-
- >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
- >
- >You've probably never done any large scale computing.
-
- >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.
-
- >Needless to say, there are people who have to worry about speed FIRST,
- >and that other considerations are (almost) irrelevent.
- As Weinberg said:
- If it doesn't have to be correct, I can make
- it as fast as you want. (paraphrase)
-
-
- John Ahlstrom
- Boole & Babbage
- Sunnyvale CA 94086
-
- I can neither confirm nor deny that
- anyone else holds these opinions.
-
- )
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