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Naggum's argument is that if you're working with a large dataset, it must have taken you a lot of time/money to obtain it and so you should be able to afford cu

• ced 18y ago
  I say that naive, brute force methods on modest datasets will generate huge memory and CPU requirements. The solution is either: waste some programmer time coding a better solution, or get better hardware/operating system. There's a tradeoff. Modern programming is super wasteful by the standards of 30 years ago. We traded computer ressources for programming convenience. There's still a lot of that to be done before we have all the convenience we want. Computers will be fast enough when I can do arithmetic with Church numerals.