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Kinda good points; however: Wirth's law is more true for commercial software where profit is the motive. Amdahl's law only really makes sense in parallel comput
by thuffy 11y ago
Kinda good points; however: Wirth's law is more true for commercial software where profit is the motive. Amdahl's law only really makes sense in parallel computing. All that is beside the real point; which is that in this post-Snowden world, we should not be sacrificing security for performance.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoWirth's law is more true for commercial software where profit is the motive. How I wish. Sure, for proprietary and commercial consumer-facing apps, it might be the case. There's a ton of proprietary/commercial development tools and infrastructure (hyper-optimized JVMs, k/kdb...) that are inverses of Wirth. FOSS has its opuses as well, but it's just as full of crap. Amdahl's law only really makes sense in parallel computing. Sure, but that doesn't mean one can just magic away blatant bottlenecks, and even if some speedup is possible, it does not retroactively make these decisions correct.
- random28345 11y ago> Amdahl's law only really makes sense in parallel computing. Contemporary computing is parallel computing. Even phones have multiple cores.
- thuffy 11y agoNice job missing the point.