Travis Boucher wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Today that reality is very visible already from certain spots. I've
recently switched fields from machine learning/nlp research to
web/industry. Although the fields are apparently very different, they
have a lot in common, along with the simple adage that obsession with
performance is a survival skill that (according to all trend
extrapolations I could gather) is projected to become more, not less,
important.
Andrei
Except in the web world performance is network and parallelism (cloud
computing). Much less code efficiency, much more programmer productivity
(which currently is mutually exclusive, but doesn't have to be)
You'd be extremely surprised. With Akamai delivery and enough CPUs, it
really boils down to sheer code optimization. Studies have shown that
artificially inserted delays on the order of tens/hundreds of
milliseconds influence user behavior on the site dramatically.
Andrei
