From: "Geo" 

"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
news:427eb908$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> Don't laugh, I've seen an editor (one of Borland's first OS/2 apps) under
> the OS/2 kernel debugger that allocated and freed a 1 byte segment on
every
> keystroke.  Every keystroke was two expensive trips through kernel memory
> management.  Programmers do some pretty dumb things...

this I can believe, I remember some borland dos app that used to run NT to
100% cpu usage because of it's key poling routine and as a programmer I've
done some pretty dumb things so I have no problem believing that either.

But there are other issues. Most of the apps that I use don't have a
problem with cpu speed being the bottleneck, the times I spend waiting for
the app are usually when it's talking to the disk or network.

Geo.

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