> Would it improve the Mona Lisa to add, say, a wilting clock to it?
That's a "feature" from the "competition".
Heh my point exactly. The canvas could have had anything from a 2 year
olds scribbling to a Dali. The value of this canvas is that da Vinci
chose to use it and decided it didn't need a wilting clock. However
my analogy was meant to illustrate the value of code on an otherwise
idle processor. I think we have now transitioned to talking about
adding code to an existing codebase which is obviously quite
different.