> we need to understand how many resources it'll need.
This is one area where theory and practice differ.
Yes, you need to have some idea of how many resources it'll need, but that can be a matter of trying to run the resulting program a bunch of times and seeing how it works, it doesn't need to be predeicted from the code.
Posted Dec 24, 2012 19:26 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Yes, you need to have some idea of how many resources it'll need, but that can be a matter of trying to run the resulting program a bunch of times and seeing how it works, it doesn't need to be predeicted from the code.
This is good way to fine-tune your requirements, but you need to have rough idea about whether you'll need 1GB, 1TB, or 1PB from the beginning. Before first line of code is written, in fact.