Pure dynamic casts?

Rainer Deyke rainerd at eldwood.com
Thu Sep 24 21:58:51 PDT 2009


language_fan wrote:
> The cost of e.g. doubling computing power depends on the domain. If you 
> are building desktop end user applications, they usually should scale 
> from single core atoms to 8-core high-end enthusiastic game computers. So 
> the cpu requirements shouldn't usually be too large. Usually even most of 
> the 1-3 previous generations' hardware runs them just nicely.
> 
> Now doubling the cpu power of a low-end current generation PC does not 
> cost $1000, but maybe $20-50.

You also need to consider how widely distributed your application is.
If you force a million desktop PC users to upgrade their CPUs, you just
wasted twenty to fifty million dollars of your customers' money (or,
more likely, lost a million customers).


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com



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