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From: "Geo"
"Tony Ingenoso" wrote in message
news:427d9332{at}w3.nls.net...
> People are lazy though - few will ever look at the link map to see where
> things are winding up.
>
> I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of commercial apps could have
> their working sets cut almost in half with only a couple of days work
> pouring over link maps and shuffling things around.
>
> Look at how relatively well Warp3 ran in 8M. That was a system that was
> page tuned rather well by people who knew how to do it.
Ah but there comes a point where the whole of the program/system is more
than any one man can understand. 8M then 500M now, 200mhz then, 3ghz now.
To use the old car analagy, it's easy to turn an 8 cylinder engine with a
max rpm of 2000, a 500 cylinder engine with a max rpm of 30,000 is a bit
more complex..
Geo.
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