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- Subject: Re: Performance
- From: Steve Dekorte <steve@...>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:18:49 -0800
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
