Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/04/11/00:48:58
> Chin Chee-Kai wrote:
> > > The first sin of programming is doing design based upon imaginary
> > > costs. A getenv call only costs a couple of microseconds.
> > > <J Q B>
> > You're living in the days of Apple's 6502.
Sorry, sent that out in a rush and didn't include some
further explanation. I was referring more to the checking
of existence of c:/tmp. This inevitably leads to checking
of a failed open(), stat(), etc system calls that invoke
disk operations. I dunno how the getenv() argument was brought
in but maybe we're just talking about different things.
Those checkings probably do take a coupla of microseconds
on average. In contemporary PCs, assuming an average of 2 cycles per
instruction, a 166MHz pentium can execute about 250 instructions
in 3 microseconds. In an application that does creation/destruction
of temp files all the time or for every transaction, it is
just not something that one would say is elegant to be inserted
into the loops.
Chin Chee-Kai (Last, First)
Internet Email-ID: cheekai AT gen DOT co DOT jp
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