Re:Coding Horror: Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive
by cia_plant on Friday December 19, 2008 @02:52PM
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Do software programmers really worry too much about optimization? If that's the case, why are so many programs slow as a crippled sloth? Why does it take 10 seconds to open a freaking email client, when 1980s technology can do this in less time than is humanly noticeable?
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Re:Coding Horror: Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive
by gaius on Friday December 19, 2008 @04:31PM
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Well, no, they don't bother, because people keep telling them that hardware is cheap and they're too expensive to work on anything that isn't new features.
Re:Coding Horror: Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive
by lallysingh on Friday December 19, 2008 @11:33PM
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That's got more to do with the size of all the frameworks & libraries loaded in, than the actual code of the app.
A modern desktop app has a lot more expected of it than one from the 1980s (GUI, copy-paste with styled text & embedded objects, drag & drop, undo, etc), and that code costs time to link in, use, and let run.