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From: Dave Korn
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:45

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David Schwartz wrote in message <3A64168B.631CD17C@webmaster.com>...
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>David Peter wrote:
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>> Sure, I know all about debug and production builds - I'm a software
>> engineer. But as an SE I spend most of my time working with debug builds
>> and tools like dmalloc, good in principal though they may be, don't
>> really help if one's application ends up running 20 times slower than
>> normal.
>
> Why? For most applications, you should be able to just start it going
>with automation and go to sleep.

  Plenty of realtime applications have tight latencies and slowing down all
their operations by a significant amount means that the system will behave
in entirely different ways or fail altogether.  The usual example to quote
at this point would be image analysis software in a missile guidance
system...

            DaveK
--
They laughed at Galileo.  They laughed at Copernicus.  They laughed at
Columbus. But remember, they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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