| ??? 12/22/11 22:28 Read: times |
#185181 - Wirth's law Does it apply to embedded systems? |
Not really a law as such but it kind of states that 'The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure all software ills. However, a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness'
Basically software is getting slower at a faster rate than hardware is getting faster, and while this is observable in general purpose computer systems I was wondering if it applies to embedded systems. My boss was saying that it doesn't as software bloat is pretty much restricted to PC applications, while I would tend to disagree having worked on a smart phone where the source code plus libraries amounted to more than 100 Mbytes |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Wirth's law Does it apply to embedded systems? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Same for embedded | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It's possible, but ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That obviously depends on priorities and focus | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Still Java | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| embedded categories vs "ease of programming" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No question about it, but doesn't that also contain risks? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Speed, quality, cost | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I think they have to choose which one of the three ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Its time for me to get on my soapbox | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
passing knowledge | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Software Bloat - or Feature Bloat? | 01/01/70 00:00 |