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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>
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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! )