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small improvements on improvements
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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