A healthy appreciation of resources is a good thing IMHO.

The system I work with is hellishly ignorant of the resources (disk and CPU) available to it and very inefficient because of it.

We've got several Tb of disk, but waiting for huge files to be written to disk takes an age - I wish some people at least try to keep things sensible.
We do actually run out of disk space - this is bad, and shouldn't happen.

I think it might depend on each programmer - some people automatically produce neat/beautiful/efficient solutions out of the box, others just seem to say "what the hell, there's loads of space!".

Things still have to work and scale.

Before, on the older machines, you wouldn't be able to compile poor code, now the problems are deferred until the volume testing or production phases if someone doesn't think about these things carefully.

Cheers.

BazB.

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In reply to Re: Re: OT: Use Perl wisely and cleverly by BazB
in thread OT: Use Perl wisely and cleverly by simon.proctor

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