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World-writable memory on Samsung Android phonesWorld-writable memory on Samsung Android phonesPosted Jan 4, 2013 22:32 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones by khim Parent article: World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones
Sure, if it's some kind of in-house program where N will not ever be more then, e.g. 1000, then it may work. If you are lucky. If we are talking about commercial software… it just does not fly. I've seen a lot of stuff deployed in such a fashion, but it all tanks when users really come.Sorry, that's rubbish. It may be true for mass-scale web software with millions of simultaneous users, but most software is not like that! I've written software in which I chose to use really crappy sorts in slow interpreted languages because I knew perfectly well that N for this application could never be above 16 without other invariants being invalidated that would necessitate rewriting the entire application. And this was for a major international bank throwing who knows how many billions of dollars a day around. I think that could be considered 'commercial software' (even if said bank *did* then proceed to shag itself and the economy of a major first-world nation, it was no fault of this software: that division was making money hand over fist and the software worked fine). (Of course, I had to pay attention to time and space complexity at times, and I frequently lamented the way my co-workers could not be bothered to do so. But that doesn't mean that you can always look at the complexity of an algorithm and conclude that you know something about the resource requirements of the system on which it sits, particularly if there are complex layers like modern server-class JVMs in the way. Note that particularly for time complexity all software has such layers in the way, because of the storage hierarchy; context switching and multicore architectures just make it worse, and virtual memory can make reasoning about space complexity into a rat's nest at times too. That's not to say you can't reason about it, but you certainly can't assume that an apaprent efficiency or inefficiency at one level translates into the same all the way up the stack.)
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