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From: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re: Multiple implementations of a specification (was about component libraries)
Summary: Performance specification -
Message-ID: <579@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 89 05:02:10 GMT
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Has any work been done on specifying lower bounds on performance and
upper bounds on resource demands for implementations? Engineers often
need to distinguish between feasible and infeasible implementations
on the basis of cost. One can even conceive of cases where the
resource in question is program development time, which might skew
towards using 'off the shelf' components as opposed to end-use
specifications which try to conserve run-time resources.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt