Rapid once deployed too

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 04, 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Howie been jivin' 'bout like:
>> FYI:
>> 
>> Aside from rapid development, filePro runs incredibly quickly in real world
>> environments too:
>> 
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>
>Okay, no offense Howie, but here's how the (what we in the gaming community
>call) "d**ksize wars" begin.  People come in with half-baked benchmarks and
>claim SCREAMING performance.  A good deal of the time, the results aren't
>even applicable because the basic premise is SO fouled that it's just not
>even remotely tennable.
>
>Tell me this:  Of those 228 processes running, how many are listed as being
>in sleep mode in the process table? 

On a typical multi-user system running accounting applications, a
majority of the users would probably be in sleep mode waiting for
input from the keyboard, unless perhaps it's something where good
operators are punching 10-key entry at top speed.

I have seen accounting applications written in brain-dead
languages (can we spell Business BASIC :-) that had very high cpu
utilization as they were in polling loops waiting for keyboard
input.  These applications would really suck cycles when the
user's terminal went offline without a proper logout.

Bill
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