> He went on to point out that they had calculated the
amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time
for the missile and then doubled that number.
I half wonder if the calculation cost more than just fixing the code.
I half wonder if the calculation cost more than just fixing the code.
Appeared backwards to me but in the world of mass products of extremely high quantities it makes sense to get the best hardware deals you can get month and sometimes years in advance.
That might have been a worthwhile tradeoff in safety-critical software where failures causes people to die (or not die as the case may be here)