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Date: 21 Sep 92 20:58:41 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu
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 (Gerald Walls)
Subject: Re: Using Global Variables
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In article <1992Sep21.192325.16479@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth
) writes:
>In article <1992Sep19.022828.11648@seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michae
l Feldman) writes:
>
>>(1) Fast enough is fast enough. Tweak (only) what you need to tweak.
>
>Don't tweak even when you need to.  In the time it takes you to get the
>tweaks correct, there'll be a new version of the machine that is fast
>enough without them.
>

not in real-time embedded applications where every upgrade
requires more and more functionality on the exact same hardware
the original program was written for years ago.  this is known
as "the real world."