1. Re: Data validation
On 2 Jun 2004 13:35:18 +0200, Christian Cuvier
<Christian.CUVIER at agriculture.gouv.fr> wrote:
>The problem is that, when modifying a variable of user-defined type, you get
>two kinds of integrity constraints: local and nonlocal.
I think I managed to cover this in one of my posts (possibly appearing
after this): you cannot make badly written type definitions fast.
>But, as Derek said, is there any point nowadays chasing the last wasted CPU
>cycle? I wrote drivers where speed was critical, and anything but asm is
>inappropriate there imho.
Agreed-ish: there is a real need imho to *leave* decent type checking
in live applications which would otherwise be quickly commented out
because it really, really does make the app run *so* much slower.
(I can't remember if my 1000-fold slowdown eg was posted b4 this)
I kinda want to say this:
Maybe, just maybe, all that is really needed is to document best
practices;
Unfortunately, however, I know that is just not true.
Regards,
Pete
