On 07/15/2016 11:52 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote:
> > P.S. A full build for the board I work on (OS and creating the boot > image) for work takes < 1 hour. The firmware I’m working on takes > just 2-3 seconds to build! This is on a PC with a 3.2GHz Skylake i7 > with SSDs. ;-) The problem is that while the PCs are getting faster, I'm slowing down. One vivid memory I have of the S/360 F-level assembler is that while the macro language was very rich, macros could take a very long time to evaluate. Some of the "system" macros were real doozies. Of course, none of that compares to the card-only systems without mass storage. --Chuck
