23 Jan
2008
23 Jan
'08
6:58 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
By now, we've probably bored the hardware guys to tears and DEC
people are tearing out their hair, so we should probably drop the
subject.
My apologies, but I've always found bit-twiddling fun. It seems that
every platform has some peculiar characteristic that can be exploited
to good advantage.
I'm still following this and watching the improvements. (I'm still
looking at what docs I have here to ascertain exactly which way the Z80 vs 6800
borrow works, but some of it's ambiguous (just for my own sake, I still do some
assembler for both of them on occasion)).
Of course, from a clarity-is-all-important modern software design perspective,
we should all be shot.
If I were an economist, I would predict that at this rate, in another few weeks
the routine will be down to 1 byte.