https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/tags/efficiency/ Recent content in Efficiency on Aaron's Worthless Words Hugo en Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2007/08/when-does-a-tab-save-you-money/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2007/08/when-does-a-tab-save-you-money/ <p>I was talking to some guys at work today about scalability and data efficiency, and an example came up that I had to think about for a second. One of the guys, a lead developer, started talking about the difference between 5 spaces and a tab. He said that the programming standard says that everyone should use spaces to standardize formatting of source code, but, if we want to conserve some bandwidth, we should look at using a tab instead. That sounds boring, doesn&rsquo;t it? Well, it is until you do the math.</p>