Bob Devine <devine@cs.utah.edu> writes:
> 3) Be aware of hardware improvements. System performance is
> still doubling every 18 months. If a software hack can't match
> that rate, it is probably not worth doing.
I like Kernighan's and Pike's argument, presented in their recent
book, The Practice of Programming, that if a software improvement is
expected to save more accumulated user time than the programmer time
spent making it, then it should be considered worthwhile.
Great book, by the way. Highly recommended.
-tih
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