On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 05:15:38PM +1030, Darren Freeman spake thusly: > On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 01:23, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 07:35:07AM +1030, Darren Freeman spake thusly: > > I don't quite buy this class of arguments that Moore's Law will > > obsolesce the art of efficient coding... > > Hey I had to give up my assembler in favour of a C compiler. Then I > realised that not every cycle counts when a billion of them happen every > second.
I bet that on typical bodies of code, your C compiler actually produces more efficient code overall than you could by hand assembly! I'm not talking about dirty tricks, just about good sense. Like moving things outside a loop if they are constant for the loop variable (That's precisely what using column/row attributes as defaults is, in fact!). ... > > > Have fun, and merry xmas, > > > Darren > > > > A Happy Newyear! > > Agreed. A happy new year. ;) > > > Martin > > Darren > Martin
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