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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:43:59 05/18/04

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On May 18, 2004 at 04:42:49, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

should be "speed" and not "soeed"
sorry for the typing error.

Uri



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