language_fan wrote:
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!
I was talking about older computers (for example a PIII 500Mhz), I know
my laptop will perform just fine for the next 5-10 years :)
