Is this Dr Frank I've been hearing about?

Our systems guy sent this out to all programmers here:


CHIP SPEEDS CAN'T KEEP UP

"In the past, a programmer could count on the speed of the processors 
to continually increase. If the application didn't perform as well as 
it should, it was a simple matter to upgrade the hardware to a faster 
processor. This approach doesn't work any more. Processor speeds are 
no longer increasing rapidly.Much of the effort will come back to the
way in which programmers design their applications."

-- Frank Soltis, iSeries chief architect, as quoted by Techworld

<half kidding>
Does this mean we will actually have to start taking performance into 
account when programming, and not just whether the job gets done?
</half kidding>


Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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