[Sigia-l] Findability

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"Karl Fast" wrote:

> I think the good/bad waste idea is quite relevant to IA.

Spot on. One of the things young IAs (like young programmers) often do is to
optimize early and on the wrong targets. And it's difficult to learn this
unless you get your hands dirty a few times.

More than a decade ago I used to write code to cluster indexes to disk,
because the stuff just wouldn't fit in the RAM. It was laborious nonsense.
Today nobody would think of doing it since RAM's so cheap. In fact it's so
cheap that people are bypassing the RDBM or any object mapping and doing
everything in RAM for phenomenal speeds in directly handling objects.

<http://www.prevayler.org/>

I can't imagine the hours I utterly 'wasted' over the years in trying to
bit-reduce thousands of images to 8 and later to 16 bits. Heck we used to
find common CLUTs for animated sequences and hand optimize them to 8-bits.
Now the vast majority of clients are 24+ bits.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba