| From: | Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih(at)Norway(dot)EU(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bob Devine <devine(at)cs(dot)utah(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Leon <leon(at)udmnet(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Fwd: Joins and links |
| Date: | 1999-07-09 07:32:24 |
| Message-ID: | 86yagqqnw7.fsf@athene.i.eunet.no |
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Bob Devine <devine(at)cs(dot)utah(dot)edu> writes:
> 3) Be aware of hardware improvements. System performance is
> still doubling every 18 months. If a software hack can't match
> that rate, it is probably not worth doing.
I like Kernighan's and Pike's argument, presented in their recent
book, The Practice of Programming, that if a software improvement is
expected to save more accumulated user time than the programmer time
spent making it, then it should be considered worthwhile.
Great book, by the way. Highly recommended.
-tih
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