Re: Remote fork() and Parallel programming
Andrej Presern (andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:27:06 +0200
Jeffrey B. Siegal wrote:
>
> >Which is going to cost more: programmer time that you pay for once, or
> >the total amount of resources that are going to be wasted over the
> >lifetime of the operating system (and applications that are based on the
> >OS, [recurse])?
>
> To a greater and greater extent, for more and more (though certainly not all)
> applications, programmer time. For any application where the comparison was
> close a few years ago, it is no longer close, and similarly any application
> which is a close call now won't be in a few years.
I don't see why we're bothering to produce high performance operating
systems then.
Andrej
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