• To: "Michael Champion" <mc@x...>,"xml-dev DEV" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XML Binary Characterization WG public list availabl e
• From: "Paul Sumner Downey" <Paul.Downey@w...>
• Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:28:10 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <E361DDC4-8A4C-11D8-B357-000A95CCC59E@x...>

Michael Champion wrote:
> Other people request the "optimization" of a cake that can be 
had and eaten too, investments that are both safe and have a high 
return,  or algorithms that are both fast and require no data 
structure overhead :-)     

Agreed! Compression costs CPU, sending big messages bandwidth
so as we say in Yorkshire "you can't get owt for nowt"*. 

Also optimisation is invariably more of an empirical rather than 
theoretical science, you have to first find and then widen the 
bottle neck, and for every system the bottle neck is in a 
different place.

Paul

* "something for nothing"

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