Subj : Re: OO compilers and efficiency
To   : comp.programming
From : Paul Dietz
Date : Thu Jul 28 2005 11:06 am

Gerry Quinn wrote:

> I'm sure there are cases where programs are continually modified to 
> improve performance.  But surely they should be an exception, given 
> that computing power increases all the time, and if performance was 
> merely adequate last year, it should be satisfactory this year and more 
> than satisfactory next year without any further modification?

You are assuming the size of the problems being addressed does not
also increase.

	Paul

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