Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.

From: rwallace@esatclear.ie (Russell Wallace)

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:36:06 +0000

On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:54:38 +0200, "Enno Rehling"
<schick.mir.spam@gmx.de> wrote:

>> This sort of thing is, I suspect, a more important reason for more
>> programs not being open source than it's commonly credited to be :)
>
>The code is ancient, and was written with 10-20 players in mind and fast =
>playability. I don't think we'd still be running it with 250.000 units =
>as we do if we hadn't changed all of it :-)

Yep, that's what I mean - in a closed source project, you can use an
O(N^2) algorithm for the first version with the idea of getting it
working quickly, and if data sets ever start getting large enough to
matter you can swap in a faster algorithm without anyone being the
wiser. In an open source project it's all there for everyone to see -
I have this horrible vision of people looking at the original Atlantis
code and thinking "hmm, Russell must've been asleep when the lecturer
explained about algorithmic efficiency" :)

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References

Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:54:38 +0000
More Arguments. Favourite games.
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Mon, 09 Apr 2001 20:49:16 +0000
Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 09 Apr 2001 23:47:54 +0000
Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
rwallace@esatclear.ie (Russell Wallace)
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:17:12 +0000
Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:42:45 +0000
Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
rwallace@esatclear.ie (Russell Wallace)
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 01:18:16 +0000

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Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:54:38 +0000
More Arguments. Favourite games.
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Mon, 09 Apr 2001 20:49:16 +0000
Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 09 Apr 2001 23:47:54 +0000
Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
rwallace@esatclear.ie (Russell Wallace)
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:17:12 +0000
Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:42:45 +0000
Re: More Arguments. Favourite games.
rwallace@esatclear.ie (Russell Wallace)
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 01:18:16 +0000