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From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/06/05
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On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, William Starner wrote:

> 
> On the other hand, portable programming is something a professional programmer
> is supposed to do, and being aware of how things work on your system won't
> always help on other systems. (I remember an example of matrix code, where
> optimizing for Cray's vector functions slowed it down on the Mac by causing page
> faults much more often.) 
> 

I'll be the last one to dismiss portability. Just mentioned a nice quote. 
I'd say that profrssionalism is knowing the tradeoffs and knowing how to
decide between them.

Ehud Lamm     mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il