Carlos E. R. wrote: > The relation is that with faster hardware programmers don't have to trim > their programs. They can allow their programs to be huge, repetitive, > non-optimized, because the hardware is faster, disks are bigger, and the > diference will be hardly noticed.
That doesn't really correlate to stability, though. Non-optimized software will be slower (usually) than optimized software, but optimizing a piece of software does not make it more stable. In fact, it's the opposite -- optimization often introduces subtle bugs of its own. You should never start optimizing any code that isn't stable. As Cort Dougan put it when he was working on porting Linux to PowerPC, "A fast kernel that crashes is just a kernel that crashes quickly." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
