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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Peter, can you explain to the Amigoids (was: NeXT software size
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Date: 9 May 91 07:02:35 GMT
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Quoted from <1991May8.013155.14300@neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):

>   Summary:  You can't make a prediction of dynamic execution time by
>             looking at a static attribute like program size.

    You _can_ estimate though, particularly if the programs have the
    same functionality, and if you've seen this heuristic succeed a
    few times already.

> Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu  
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