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KJTFS
At least the time is down a little. Your users will have to realiz
that some things take time, even the most efficient process in
computer takes time!!! Until we reach the point of Quantum Computer
(I don't know when or if that will happen) operations will take time.
I hate users that say this should be instant. NO do it out by hand an
tell me if it is instant, last time I checked the space time contiuniu
was still intact. Unless you are doing something that needs to be don
in Real Time like something in a hospital or such then the user shoul
be able to wait 10-20s unless they want to take a pay cut and support
1000 opteron server running 1TB or ram!!!! I remember working o
computers that didn't break the 100Mhz barrier, now that was slow bu
you dealt with it as it was the fastest way. I am sure you could mak
your process more efficient but you will have to use some dat
structures, I am not sure how much you know about linked lists an
trees.... But that is an option. I would just remind your users tha
computers are still doing something even though they think they ar
magic boxes that sit on their desk. I work at a financial company an
I get so many users that want things to be instant well a SQL query o
500000 rows is going to take a while, then I usually tell them to do i
by hand, O that would take days and days to do, OK so it takes th
computer 20s what is the problem. Usually they are quite after that!!
(All this is said with the idea that you are programming efficientl
and not putting a lot of overhead into your programs)
Sorry that was my little rant.
Keith
www.kjtfs.com
that some things take time, even the most efficient process in
computer takes time!!! Until we reach the point of Quantum Computer
(I don't know when or if that will happen) operations will take time.
I hate users that say this should be instant. NO do it out by hand an
tell me if it is instant, last time I checked the space time contiuniu
was still intact. Unless you are doing something that needs to be don
in Real Time like something in a hospital or such then the user shoul
be able to wait 10-20s unless they want to take a pay cut and support
1000 opteron server running 1TB or ram!!!! I remember working o
computers that didn't break the 100Mhz barrier, now that was slow bu
you dealt with it as it was the fastest way. I am sure you could mak
your process more efficient but you will have to use some dat
structures, I am not sure how much you know about linked lists an
trees.... But that is an option. I would just remind your users tha
computers are still doing something even though they think they ar
magic boxes that sit on their desk. I work at a financial company an
I get so many users that want things to be instant well a SQL query o
500000 rows is going to take a while, then I usually tell them to do i
by hand, O that would take days and days to do, OK so it takes th
computer 20s what is the problem. Usually they are quite after that!!
(All this is said with the idea that you are programming efficientl
and not putting a lot of overhead into your programs)
Sorry that was my little rant.
Keith
www.kjtfs.com