3.7X speedup from removing a call to sleep

Re:3.7X speedup from removing a call to sleep by powertower on Sunday September 02, 2012 @11:07AM (#4467158)

And is that what happens? You get same quality code at cheaper prices? Like Wal-Mart gets cheaper made goods from China that last as long as their more expensive domestic counter-parts? Or how Dell has retained it's customer satisfaction ratings by using Indian call-centers?

I think it's been established that when you outsource for cost, you get back a product that cost you more in the long run.

Again, there are exceptions to this, but that's not what we are talking about.

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Re:3.7X speedup from removing a call to sleep by manojlds on Sunday September 02, 2012 @12:14PM (#4467315)

No, it means that they went cheaper than they ought to.Of course, you get what you payed for. But the scale is different. Just because it is cheaper, it does not imply poor quality.

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Re:3.7X speedup from removing a call to sleep by stickfigure on Monday September 03, 2012 @02:06AM (#4469279)

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

  -- Damon Runyon

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