BIT Counting: C programming problem
Matt Landau
mlandau at bbn.com
Wed Jan 25 14:10:45 AEST 1989
In comp.lang.c (<8398 at dasys1.UUCP>), ejablow at dasys1.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow)
writes:
>[Barry Margolin suggests using a 64K lookup table for something.]
>
>That is a ridiculous idea. For microscopic savings in speed, you
>waste 63K of space...what if it needs 400K to run effectively, or
>even 640K...Besides, more and more people are going to multiprogramming
>environments, even on PCs, like Windows or DesqView.
Anyone else noticed that the "all the world's a VAX" mentality seems to be
turning into an "all the world's a PC" mentality? Positively frightening.
--
Matt Landau Waiting for a flash of enlightenment
mlandau at bbn.com in all this blood and thunder
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