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Authored by: yoel on Oct 19, '02 11:27:45AM

Good point about the quotes...that one slipped by me. Your efficiency suggestions are all good ones, too. I will only note that you have that peculiar obsession with micro-optimization that characterizes many old-time Unix people, which is, I suppose, understandable seeing as how the old Unix machines probably would get smoked by my PalmPilot :-).



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Authored by: peyote on Oct 19, '02 01:13:02PM

More of a habit than an obsession... I just hate seeing cycles go to waste.

But yeah, you're right... When I were a lad, hardware was a lot slower... I remember being impressed by how nippy the Sun 3/50 was when it came out.

But to drag this back on topic, every cycle you throw away by (say) eedlessly running up a perl interpreter is one that can't be used for that uber-cool raytrace you're doing in the background. (or that password cracker or SETI@home or whatever).



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