Proebsting's Law

Stray Toaster mwk at stray-toaster.co.uk
Wed Dec 14 09:29:14 GMT 2005


On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:27:44PM +0000, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Perhaps this means Programming Language Research should be concentrating 
> on something other than optimizations. Perhaps programmer productivity 
> is a more fruitful arena. 

But a 4% more performance can mean 4% less power. (As mentioned to me, I
didn't think of it.) So, in the embedded space, this is great, as
battery performance hasn't increased by 60%...

m.

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