Re: OT Discussion- Priority of Performance Tuning...
From: Tim Gorman <tim_at_evdbt.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:14:38 -0600
Message-ID: <4EA9E5DE.3010404_at_evdbt.com>
Tim's Corollary to Norm's Law: Greater volumes of inefficient software are written every 18 months, thus intensifying Norm's Law and utterly drowning Moore's Law.
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:14:38 -0600
Message-ID: <4EA9E5DE.3010404_at_evdbt.com>
Tim's Corollary to Norm's Law: Greater volumes of inefficient software are written every 18 months, thus intensifying Norm's Law and utterly drowning Moore's Law.
On 10/27/2011 12:47 AM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> On 26/10/11 22:36, Herring Dave - dherri wrote:
>> But if you don't throw more hardware at it, you'll hurt the hardware industry. :-) I think it's all a secret deal between software and hardware COs. Write bad code so there's a need for more powerful hardware. Now with all this powerful hardware, we can run more bad code.
> Norm's Law: Software efficiency halves every 18 months thus compensating
> for Moore's Law.
>
> :-)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norm.
>
>
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