> > The z890 and z990 help by relieving some of the physical resource > > constraints, but there's still only so much CPU to go around, and a > > lot of "modern" applications waste enormous amounts of physical > > resources simply because they *can* on other platforms -- > garbage in, > > garbage out. > > This is known on the other platforms as "superior use of a > programmer's time". I.e. tuning a program is no longer > considered to be very important. As we used to say: "Just > throw hardware at it!"
Indeed. Best summed up by Harlan Ellison: "We've climbed up to the top of a mountain of cow flop, only to find that we've lost our sense of smell." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
