Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:16:05 -0400, Jeremie Pelletier thusly wrote: > I expect my $3k computer to not slow down to a crawl > because its software is written in a "safe" way and I like people with > older computers to still be able to run my programs without waiting 5 > minutes between any two mouse clicks.
Your $3k computer can probably run about 7200 billion instructions in 5 minutes - it will eventually get old in the coming years. I really hope the bloat in various software components never gets that bad that you would have to wait 5 minutes between two mouse clicks!
