Re: Speed is the one true performance metric

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From: Tim Rentsch
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1986 07:28

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In article <3576@utcsri.UUCP> greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith) writes:

> There are few things more useless than a computer that executes
> instructions correctly 999 times out of 1000....

This prompted a memory which I could not resist sharing with
netland.  I know net.arch is not the appropriate place, so followons
to /dev/null, and no flames, ok?

(The following is not original, but I do not remember the source.)

	"The code is 99% debugged...."

	one in every hundred statements is WRONG!

cheers,

txr

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From: rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch)
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Subject: Re: Speed is the one true performance metric
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Date: Fri, 7-Nov-86 02:28:50 EST
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