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Article #3244Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:01
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:01
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Tom L. Davis (davis@adrs1.dseg.ti.com) wrote: : Very specialized, government funded, programs such as weather prediction : and particle physics may be be able to afford huge programs written in C : or Fortran. But I question the cost/benefit ratio of this approach... You have some valid points, but you overstating things a bit. I do not have anything against Matlab and related programs, but it is appropriate to use languages like C in many small and privately funded products. If you are producing an executable that has many users, investing the development time to increase performance may be appropriate. In a commercial setting it may be a requirement. Tony -- ------------------ Tony Tribelli adtribelli@acm.org
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!netcom.com!adt From: adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Message-ID: <adtDMvwzB.J9G@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <4csn1n$klb@macshack.com> <jragosta-2601961539320001 <19960201.11A2980.E21F@olympus.net> <nevin-0302960411460001@150.135.1.79> <kevinbDMCMIy.B26@netcom.com> <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <bwanga-0702961550230001@metricom12.ucsc.edu> <davis-1102961730580001@pppsb16.itg.ti.com> <9602120100.AA23318@ues5.cern.ch> <davis-1502962045270001@pppsb5.itg.ti.com> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 20:01:58 GMT Sender: adt@netcom6.netcom.com