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"Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM."
That reminds me of the Jon Bentley book Programming Pearls where he compares (something like) a 300MHz DEC alpha to a 2MHz Radio Shack TRS-80 running a more efficient algorithm. For problems above a certain size the TRS-80 is faster. For problems above an even bigger size, the alpha will effectively never finish.
If your problem is big enough then algorithms matter.
Commented Jan 21, 2011 on 24 Gigabytes of Memory Ought to be Enough for Anybody at Coding Horror
24 Gigabytes of Memory Ought to be Enough for Anybody
Are you familiar with this quote? 640K [of computer memory] ought to be enough for anybody. — Bill Gates It's amusing, but Bill Gates never actually said that: I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amou...
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