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From: "Mark Wilden" <mark@mwilden.com>
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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
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>
> If an app uses 10 seconds more to startup or 5% longer to complete a
> task, where is the hurt? I am pretty sure that if you also put into
> the equation all that time that is spent after a program has crashed
> etc.. you will find that you don't loose time on software with better
> quality.

Just a comment on the "5% longer" figure. That might not seem like much, but
if you're talking about a process that takes three days to complete, saving
5% means you get your results over three hours sooner. In other words, a
small percentage of a large amount can be significant.