"Small efficient fast-running code" isn't the only issue. A case in point
in CMU ECE is Matlab: the code isn't that bad, but the data sets get *very*
large. Large enough, in fact, that we're impatiently waiting for a released
kernel with large swap partition support ("released" because we're unlikely
to get a stable AFS client for 2.0.36pre-patches :-) for the folks who want
to run their jobs without having to fight for access to the Suns and Alphas.
And before CMU I was consulting for a bank department which runs financial
simulations a lot. One simulation they were experimenting with used 2GB of
RAM and an equal amount of swap....
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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