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Originally Posted by efoote868
I understand that if I'm manufacturing 100 million widgets and I can save a fraction of a cent on manufacturing PCB or hardware specs I'm doing it, but if I'm doing just one prototype, cost is not my motivating factor.
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Even with large scale manufacturing, cost is no longer the limiting factor thanks in large part to companies like these:
http://www.arm.com/ and
http://www.intel.com/
Processing power is cheap and there are so many layers of abstraction these days that optimizing for Big O isn't necessarily where you'll see the most performance gains. From my experience in the manufacturing and software development industries, there is a lot more to be gained from network optimizations than there is from Big O these days. You can optimize an algorithm all day long but if you send it via a crappy protocol then the information might not get there or, more likely, it will arrive late.
My point being:
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Originally Posted by gblake
There is more than one way to skin most cats, including software cats
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Meow.