RE: What counts as technically slick?

Wait! 

Isn't this exactly what we're being told to do today?
Externalize I/O??

Phil


--- "York, Albert" <albert.york@nissan-usa.com> wrote:
>       > James Kilgore gave a great example of something
> that's too slick
> (the old
>       > MDY-YMD date multiply trick.)  Are there any
> other contributions?
> 
> Years ago I was called in to work on a new
> application that was having
> severe performance problems. The designers had come
> up with a great way
> (they thought) to control file access. For each
> file, they wrote a "server"
> program. The application programs accessed the file
> only through these
> server programs. Files were not opened directly, all
> reads, writes, and
> updates were done through these calls. Naturally
> this caused a performance
> hit by itself  But on top of that, for some reason,
> they coded all of these
> server programs to set on LR before returning. We
> gained big boost simply by
> removing that one line from each program. Then, as
> the application was
> maintained, we got rid of the server programs and
> brought the files back
> into the program.
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