Comment Re:Hey! That's *my* field! (Or close to it.) (Score 1) 600
If you want to claim any universally true answer to a question regarding software comments or assembly vrs. perl scripts etc. you probably have a point. But in practice those kinds of questions should be asked with specific contexts in which their are clearly defined objectives and resources available to meet those objectives. At that point there are normally optimal answers (although we might not always get them right).
Is assembly better than perl? How quick does it have to be running? How much are you willing to spend to meet this objective? What do you have available in the way of cpu bandwidth? How important is it going to be to tweak it on the fly? etc. etc. Every situation has a different answer. But we do have some concrete criteria.
The only people I've heard try to claim any kind of universal answer to these questions are ironically enough professors of Computer Science.
Is assembly better than perl? How quick does it have to be running? How much are you willing to spend to meet this objective? What do you have available in the way of cpu bandwidth? How important is it going to be to tweak it on the fly? etc. etc. Every situation has a different answer. But we do have some concrete criteria.
The only people I've heard try to claim any kind of universal answer to these questions are ironically enough professors of Computer Science.
