If you're a bank, then you should have the money to scale your hardware to meet your demand. If you have 100,000 cases of something in a codebase, your code is too large. I have worked on dozens of codebases, large and small, in companies large and small. I've had never seen an instance where an application couldn't be written in under 100kLOC, most under 25kLOC. Especially in Perl. I will grant that there are situations where that's needed, such as an OS. But, I will go out on a limb and say that 90% of all codebases are under 100kLOC and shouldn't care about the CPU.
My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^2: CPU cycles DO NOT MATTER! by dragonchild
in thread CPU cycles DO NOT MATTER! by dragonchild

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