4 Apr
2006
4 Apr
'06
12:28 p.m.
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 08:53 am, Don Y wrote:
I have a friend who is just finishing the design of a
LIGHT SWITCH --
written in ASM.
*boggle*
Why?
<...>
It's really difficult to make the transition to
resource-rich
applications... it's hard not to count clock cycles, measure stack
penetration (do people even *know* how deep the stack needs to be on modern
desigs? Or, do they just keep bumping it up until the code works??), pare
data down to the smallest necessary size, etc. (I still cringe every time I
use an int for a bool! :>)
Sounds a lot like the way I tend to approach things, too.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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