Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <1988Jun18.231122.3383@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <16173@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 88 23:11:22 GMT

> ... few people run on a PDP-11 anymore. Memory and disk space
> are cheap these days; the goal is no longer to reduce each program to
> it's minimalist set of options and execution size...

You'd be surprised how much of a difference in performance you can get,
even on modern systems, by applying the minimalist philosophy vigorously.

> Trade size of executables for execution speed where appropriate.
> Unused code is never paged in anyway.

Spoken like a true disk salesman. :-) :-(
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