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Subject: Re: How are programs going to change in the next 5 years??

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:42:49 05/18/04

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On May 18, 2004 at 00:50:27, Derek Paquette wrote:

>This is a question that has been bugging me as of late, here it is.
>Because of increasing speeds in CPU's are programmers going to accept higher
>kn/sec (where as it was normal to get 500 kn/sec with fritz7, now a days you
>might get 1400 kn/sec) so essentially programs are becoming 'bean counters'
>
>so will programmers stuff more knowledge into the programs to bring down the
>kn/sec once again to where it was before, making the program smarter?
>or will we see Shredder 12 at 4000 kn/sec on our standard machines in 5 years?
>Or will we see Shredder 12 at 300 kn/sec like we are used too, but just much
>much smarter?
>
>Anyone?

I think that there is no need to reduce nodes per second in order to do programs
smarter.

The main problem in improving the evaluation is not soeed but finding if a
change is productive or not productive.

Uri



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