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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:49:23 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9,
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> Arguing that performance is unimportant is counterintuitive. It
> certainly is. Arguing that it is unimportant if it causes unnecessary
> complexity has merit. Defining when things become "unnecessarily
> complex" is important to the argument. Applications with timers (or
> doing lots of logging) using gettimeofday(2) being instantaneously
> improved by *very* measurable amounts due to such changes seems like a
> good idea to me, and it doesn't seem too complex. Doing it for
> getpid(2) seems pretty dumb.

i take a different view of performance.

performance is like scotch.  you always want better scotch,
but you only upgrade if the stuff you're drinking is a problem.

- erik