[Scottish] Computing Power debate

[Cameron Logie]

Hi,

Following on from the debate last night about slow software on high spec
machines, don't you think that developers of 3 or 4 years ago were,
perhaps, more prepared to use lower level programming languages to gain
additional speed ?

Maybe another problem is that compiler optimisations aren't being fully
exploited so that the software can run on any x86 box.
I wonder what a 686 optimised version of Word would be like, for example.

I blame nested API's for it. :)

Cheers,
Cammy.

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