Wrong trade-off. The time is DEVELOPMENT time, not PERFORMANCE

Wrong trade-off. The time is DEVELOPMENT time, not PERFORMANCE

Posted Aug 4, 2005 16:01 UTC (Thu) by thompsot (guest, #12368)
In reply to: Wrong trade-off. The time is DEVELOPMENT time, not PERFORMANCE by dwheeler
Parent article: Our bloat problem

This is pretty much what I was thinking as I was reading through all this.  Isn't the now common use of OO RAD tools which often spit out huge, unoptimized executables the biggest root of the problem?  At one time most apps were written in C and the speed was incredible.

 This is definitely an issue of "speed to market" driving the efficiency (or lack thereof) of the code. Commercial vendors who compete to see who can release the next cool feature suffer from this trend, and so does OSS if we make speed to market a primary driver in decision making.   I am inclined to believe that no/low cost, high quality, "slower to market" will eventually beat out high cost, low quality, "faster to market" over time.  That's where the latest OSS movement started and consumer adoption has continually been on the rise from the beginning.

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