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Article #11805Code to Data ratio
From: Henry J. Cobb
Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 10:07
Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 10:07
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We will always have 'new' exceptions that the continuing growth of computing power allow us to handle. A single keystroke remains about the same amount of data, but as GUI's grow (in size, complexity and user base), its meaning is extended. Finished programs of perfect regularity belong on a platonic plane. 'Creeping featurism' is an attempt to better match the real needs of real users. Data streams through our systems, and is either temporal (and therefore compact) or part of a large database that can be retrieved a piece at a time from disk. When we buy DRAMs, they are for code, not data. And shared libraries will become ever more useful. -- Henry J. Cobb video@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu SFB Tyrant Ph# (512) 447-8957 1400 Rabb Rd. Austin, TX 78704 "The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present" -Hobbes
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: video@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Code to Data ratio Message-ID: <49500@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 25 May 91 10:07:10 GMT References: <11299@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> <13179@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <11397@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Sender: root@ut-emx.uucp Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 21 Originator: video@pooh.cc.utexas.edu