cliffhanger@cup.portal.com (Cliff C Heyer) (08/15/89)
**UPDATE**
(corrections for previous posting)
The main purpose of this survey is to show
if there is any relationship between hardware
platform power and coding speed, and benefits
of a mouse/GUI environment.
By "worst" I don't mean to imply incompetence!
The "slowest" cases are those times when your tuning
time-critical code, when you spend 4 months working
a few lines. The "fastest" may be when you're
translating a program you KNOW WELL from another
language to C.
Take any & all C projects you've WRITTEN,
DEBUGGED AND TESTED thoroughly (preferably
greater than 2000 lines) and divide it by the
estimated number of working days.
Specify:
1) Your slowest and fastest CLIP'D examples
and what type of programming you were doing.
(keep in mind YOU may not have a "fastest" time
if you spend your time tuning code.)
2) What percentage of your code is comments
(OR if you want to get real fancy, count only the code.)
3) Your processor make, model, OS, microprocessor & MHz
(This is important. For example, what if you are on a 68000
and have to wait 10 minutes each time you do a compile, but
on a VAX 6000-440 it takes 10 seconds. This adds up!)
4) Whether or not you have a MOUSE environment (GUI) OR
your BAUD rate.
These will statistically correlated with the CLIP ratings.
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