Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>> Since hardware resources are abundant and cheap, it makes sense
>> to try to do whatever is necessary to reduce programming costs --
>> even when the savings come at the expense of wasting a few extra
>> bytes and processor cycles.
>
> Interesting conclusion.
>
> Is that true? I thought there were too many software and to a lesser
> extent firmware developer and not enough hardware developers? ;-)

The number of available engineers has nothing to do with it other than
effecting the cost of the engineers.  However, common sense says that the
unit cost of low volume products is dominated by the engineering effort, and
that of high volume products by manufacturing.  It's a simple large up front
plus smaller incremental calculation, which must always be kept in mind when
making tradeoffs in the desing process.


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