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Comment Developers are stupid (Score 1) 729

by MisterEntropy on Sunday November 23, 2008 @01:04PM (#25865297) Attached to: Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero?

There are sometimes good business reasons to develop open source software. There are factions within the software development community, however, that think software should generally be free and open source. The implication is either that what developers spend all their time producing has no value, or that it does have value, but that the developers don't deserve to be paid for producing it. I can understand some consumers advocating this view, but developers themselves?! That's just stupid.

High-level Languages and Speed 777

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday July 18, 2006 @03:42AM from the ever-changing-animal dept.

nitsudima writes to tell us Informit's David Chisnall takes a look at the 'myth' of high-level languages versus speed and why it might not be entirely accurate. From the article: "When C was created, it was very fast because it was almost trivial to turn C code into equivalent machine code. But this was only a short-term benefit; in the 30 years since C was created, processors have changed a lot. The task of mapping C code to a modern microprocessor has gradually become increasingly difficult. Since a lot of legacy C code is still around, however, a huge amount of research effort (and money) has been applied to the problem, so we still can get good performance from the language."

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