4 Apr
2006
4 Apr
'06
7:28 p.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 08:53 am, Don Y wrote:
It is a very clever light switch! :> (sorry, I can't
speak about it until he files...)
I have a friend who is just finishing the design
of a LIGHT SWITCH --
written in ASM.
*boggle*
Why? <...>
<shrug> Depends. If I don't have resources, I live with
what I have. If I *do* have resources, then I take full
advantage of them! E.g., I have an embedded device that
I am working on now that will have over a gig of RAM in it.
Very nerve-wracking to p*ss through memory like that but
it needs a lot of resources to do what it needs to get
done (and there is far too much code for it to be
maintainable with a penny-pinching approach!)
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.