On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> You can argue resource management all day long. However I take those
>> things into consideration. Most of my programs have very limited
>> client side footprints. I know throwing more hardware at a
>> performance issue is barbaric. But I have not had to go there yet.
>> We have SO MUCH head room on our infrastructure for our current
>> customer base... I can't see a reason to spend time making it more
>> efficient when I could spend time adding useful (to humans) code
>> instead.
>>
>
> I *could* read that as "the hardware's so powerful, who gives a rat's arse
> about the quality of the source code".
>
> But I'm sure that's not what you meant... Is it?
I read that as "my goal is to provide value" which is what I want to hear
from a developer.
Also, you seem to equate "quality of the source code" with efficiency
first. I tend to equate quality of the source code with correctness,
maintainability, some other stuff, then efficiency.
-- Fritz
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