[Luna] Vista requirements (beating a dead horse)

[Karim Nassar]

Uh. I work with a bunch of USC grads. This is par for the course.
However, I CAN say that most NAU grads, and all cal-tech grads I know do
NOT suffer this condition ;-)

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On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 12:31 -0700, JP Bonn wrote:
> Jeff Clark wrote:
> > Code:
> > I agree with Ryan, but would also add that your typical software 
> > developer has no clue about code optimization, even if the environment 
> > was made available.
> > 
> I wish I could disagree over "your typical software developer has no 
> clue about code optimization".  Unfortunately just the other day I was 
> able to improve the performance of the simulator for the chip we are 
> building by a factor of 10. Our testsuites went from taking over 24 
> hours to less than 2.5 hours. It wasn't a matter of compile time or 
> platform optimizations but poor coding causing the bad performance. 
> Unfortunately the original simulator was written by USC grad students - 
> it doesn't bode well for the next generation of software.
> 
> JP
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