> And there is also such a thing as premature > optimisation. A solution > that scales well to 600 million records may not be > appropriate for a > much smaller number.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil." As the students of "The art of UNIX programming", none of us here would ever do any such thing as premature optimization; it is against our principles of engineering. What we do in this particular case is overengineering, or rather using an engineering philosophy which I would define as "if we can solve it for an unlimited number of clients / x million times higher load, then we have also solved it for one single client and small load." There's a big difference there, between premature optimization and overengineering in anticipation of abuse. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
