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Maintenance costs do not always dominate. If you are working on code that will run on many thousands of machines, then hardware and running-the-cluster costs do
by lacker 18y ago
Maintenance costs do not always dominate. If you are working on code that will run on many thousands of machines, then hardware and running-the-cluster costs dominate. Performance improvements that are small in terms of % can still be worth many programmer-months of effort, and it becomes optimal to use C or C++.
- barrkel 18y agoOf course it depends. If your code is going to last for 20+ years, though (like the code I work on), I can guarantee you that it becomes very difficult to see the forest for the trees.