Re:OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing
by Evbn on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @01:17AM
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This matters if you are Google, serving gigabytes of data per user for free. This matters less for sites whose compute budget is 10% of their human budget, where trying to cut from 2x to 1x on compute isn't worth the human cost.
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Re:OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing
by justincormack on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @03:35AM
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I imagine Google's staff budget is hugely higher than their compute budget. But when budgets get big you want to cut them anyway ...
Re:OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing
by lmm on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @04:21AM
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Poor logic on their part if so. Slowing your programmers down 2% to cut 10% off your hardware costs is usually a bad idea, and that's still true as your budgets for both grow, as long as the ratio stays the same.
(I don't think Google are stupid, I think their ratio probably has shifted to the point where their hardware budget is comparable to their salary budget. Which makes them a very unusual case)