From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Jul 08 1999 - 17:54:21 MDT
Billy Brown writes:
> On a tangential note, you seem to think that large programs are inherently
> bad in some sense. Why? A high-quality program is one that does the things
Large programs are not that bad -- but large monolithic programs
are. You'll have trouble porting code monoliths to fine-grain maspar
systems.
> I want it to do in a simple and cost effective manner. As long as you have
> that, who cares if the program is 5 KB or 5 MB? Program size only becomes
Code bloat tends to thrash cache, and thus affect how much cycles the
other jobs get.
> important if the software is so big that it actually affects its
> performance, or takes up a meaningfull fraction of my hard drive, or in some
> other way limits my ability to use it.
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