15 Jul
2019
15 Jul
'19
1:19 a.m.
From: Adam Thornton
something designed for single-threaded composible
text-filtering
operations is now running almost all of the world's multithreaded
user-facing graphical applications, but that's the vagaries of history
for you.
It's a perfect example of my aphorism, "The hallmark of truly great
architecture is not how well it does the things it was designed to do, but how
well it does things it was never expected to handle."
Noel