Re: 90/10 rule... source?

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
17 Jan 2004 23:25:07 -0500

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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 17 Jan 2004 23:25:07 -0500
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References: 04-01-038
Keywords: practice
Posted-Date: 17 Jan 2004 23:25:07 EST

Jens Troeger wrote:




> I am looking for a (the) original paper on the 90/10 rule of program
> execution. So far I found this reference


I would think it is a special case of Zipf's law.


http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/zipfslaw.html


Looks like a nice official reference.


-- glen
[Right, that's what it's called. How could I forget G. K. Zipf? -John]


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