[NCLUG] programming question

[Charles Clarke]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Evelyn Mitchell wrote:

> It's really important to remember that programmer attention is the
> one thing in short supply anymore. CPU speed, Disk space, network
> speed.. all have improved so much that optimizing for them is probably
> a waste of your time. Yes, there are corner cases where an app is
> just too slow, and needs to be fixed. But in all other cases, you're
> probably better off adding new functionality than to be optimizing.

And a faster machine/more memory/larger disk probably costs less than a
day or two of programming time.