Le 23.12.2012 03:37, John Hasler a écrit :
berenger.morel writes:
I really would like to understand why people think it is a problem
to
do softwares able to run on lower hardware... if someone have any
clue, I really want to know it!
Because they aren't very good programmers. And that's a problem,
because there is more programming to do than there are good
programmers
to do it.
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John Hasler
But what I do not understand is why it is starting to become a rule to
avoid performances. Sounds like people think it is a good thing to do
the job of the OS or the WM in a simple application. Now, we are
starting to have HTML interpreters, aka web browsers (just an example),
able to manage windows, load and execute programs, access to webcams...
and mozilla is building OSes...
I'm not a good programmer (or at least, I do not think to be good
enough to claim such thing), but I know that I am not able to build an
OS (well, I must admit that is might because I tried in my first years
of programming ^^).
I do not understand why people are taking what is obviously the wrong
way to do things: reimplementing features which are already given by
other softwares, in applications which are not specialized in those
features.
The most obvious example is window management, I think. Most softwares
nowadays implement window management features, like tabbed and MDI
interfaces (and we can see consequences: memory leaks, crash which makes
you loose all your work, strange behaviors, ...)
And the post from which I replied was speaking about people who just
think they can manage disk access better than the kernel!
Is not it non-sense? Being a good programmer or not is not the problem
here, even a newbie could understand that multiplying features in a
software makes it harder to maintain and memory hungry... no?
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