14 Oct
2007
14 Oct
'07
6:14 p.m.
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, David Stigant wrote:
However, most widely-used programs (ex: web browsers, word processors, email programs, data bases, IDEs) tend to be 90% IO and 10% (or less) computation.
No, they don't. They look it, but there's always a fair amount of computation going on to decide things like what IO to do. For example, in a web browser the IO is in reading user input, rendering the display and interacting with the network - but page layout is computation, as is dispatching input. -- flippa@flippac.org Society does not owe people jobs. Society owes it to itself to find people jobs.