Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Clarification of The Incarnation and a Short Rebuke
From: "Tim Spragens" <info@borderless-photos.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:13:40 +0100
 
On 25 Jan 2001, at 8:36, Doug Herr wrote:

> Current software is written in high-level languages.  Typically when I
> convert a C program to assembly language I can cut the program size by
> 2/3 and increase the speed of execution by a factor of 10.  Bloatware
> is easy to write and the RAM and MHz required to run it have become so
> cheap that few people care that the software is sloppy.

Well, the product managers for commercial products want the 
program out the door as soon as possible. The time spent for that 
wonderful fine tuning that saves RAM, FLOPs and hard disk space 
could be used more profitably on the next revision.