Author: Danniel Corbit
Date: 13:54:45 08/04/98
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On August 04, 1998 at 10:32:02, Komputer Korner wrote: [snip] >I am afraid that it may come to that or either not getting enough Rebel 10 >operators. Operators are pissed off that if they leave their machines they >have to come back at a certain time to get the Rebel move. If it was a large >change I could understand Ed's reluctance but surely changing the maximum time >allowed per single analysis would not involve much work. On the other hand, to be fair to Ed, it may be a lot more work than we might think. Suppose (for instance) his program is written in Assembly language and the data type for time is a two byte integer. It might have dozens of public references, throughout the code. That would only be good for about 9 hrs worth of wait time, and in Assembly language, it might be somewhat tricky to update it, compared to a HLL. So what seems like a two minute fix in C++ could be a two week fix in Assembly language [depending upon lots of factors, of course]. Assembly code also tends to be a lot larger, and you might need 100K lines to accomplish the same thing as 10K lines of C++. In short, the problem might be much larger than we might think. Of course, it would be very nice to be able to specify up to 24 hours (or more) of analysis time. Maybe all the competitors will put a little check box comparision thing into the magazines and drive him to fix it. ;-)
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