On 08/03/2011 05:09 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Poor performance is the exact opposite of scalability.
>
> I think it depends on whether you're talking about scalable at runtime
> or scalable at coding time. I.e., is it a question of how big a program
> you can write, or a question of how big a program you can run?

I've not seen it applied to code size. Usually it's applied to run-time 
performance. (E.g., if you have a program that uses an O(N^2) algorithm, 
it probably works just fine for 10 users, but it's going to fail 
spectacularly for 10,000,000 users. It does not "scale".)

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