Re: Justifying Optimization

> Most programmer time is invested into commercial applications
>targetted for Windows and nothing else (sad as this state of affairs
>is). In that area, it makes sense to run the debug-mode code, simply
>to cut down on the effort for testing.


>Additional testing with the optimizer turned on will just find a lot
>of bugs that were never relevant in debug code - why fix them?
>Customers don't care about them, fixing them just runs the risk of
>introducing other errors, and customers want that the software vendor
>invests his time into new features (or in fixing the more obvious
>bugs and misfeatures), not in making the software beautiful.


I recently upgraded a Windows ISP client (after the old one crashed
and ate an email filing cabinet).


The newer version is quite a bit slower than the one that I upgraded
from. I do not view it as "the price of more stable code", because I
do not know that the new version is any more stable than the one I
upgraded from (software upgrades on Windows go the other way more
often than not in my experience).


Instead, I am thinking "time to get a different ISP".


Is that really the response that you want from customers?




Regards,
Clayton Weaver
<mailto: cgweav@aol.com>

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