Re: Performance

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

Matt Holmes wrote:
> I am sure this may be the case in some applications, but in very heavy
> processing applications, I would have to think that the margin of 
> overhead
> would start to grow. Especially in cases where the processor was being
> utilized at 100% of its capacity (though, admittedly, this is very rare 
> with
> modern 1+ ghz processors).

I agree, but it sounded like the application in question was one that 
applied business rules to some business data. These usually involve a 
bunch of complex if-then-elses where you'll probably spend much more 
time reading the data and writing the results than processing.

Steve