[mercury-users] Switching on strings

[Thomas Conway]

On Thursday 24 July 2003 11:55, Ralph Becket wrote:
>  Plus, I
> get results sooner from the Mercury program because I don't have to
> spend heaps of time in gdb tracking down bugs in a C program.

The value of this tradeoff is great for developers, but unfortunately 
diminishes greatly if the resulting program is long running, or as is the 
case for the product I work on, is a server where more cycles = fewer 
concurrent users. I've discovered that in practice, the "buy a faster 
machine" argument doesn't work when you customer is already buying a 
multimillion dollar 64 cpu box. You just have to make to code go faster.
<sigh>

Back to dbx to figure out why my code is still trying to use that pointer 
after the memory got freed.... :-(

T.
-- 
Dr Thomas Conway                            Multimedia Database Systems, RMIT
<conway at mds.rmit.edu.au>      499 User Error: Replace user and press ANY key.

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