Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-sally!ut-emx!chpf127 From: chpf127@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Eaton) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Basics of Program Design Message-ID: <3910@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 12:06:22 GMT References: <901@td2cad.intel.com> <3061@rpp386.UUCP> <395@proxftl.UUCP> <430@proxftl.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 17 In article <430@proxftl.UUCP>, bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes: > > [stuff about no excuse for sloppiness deleted] > (hey, I agree with this, at least for programming) > > To make this concrete, let me describe the profile output from a > typical program after I have finished with it: The first few > routines take about 5-10% of the execution time apiece. The > remaining routines take less than a few percent apiece of the > execution time. But there are thousands of 'em and the whole thing takes weeks to execute!! !-) !-) J. Eaton UT Department of Chemical Engineering and ugly Fortran ( But we're tyring to get prettier! )