div by 10 on Z80 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 Jan 2008

On 23 Jan 2008 at 19:16, Brent wrote:

...
  Of course, from a clarity-is-all-important modern
software design
 perspective, we should all be shot. 
Naw, not even. "Obscure" is miles of spaghetti code twiddling bits 
seemingly at random in a word, then finally using a "count the 1 
bits" instruction on said word to index into a jump table...

...
  If I were an economist, I would predict that at this
rate, in another few
 weeks the routine will be down to 1 byte. 
Good thing for us that you're not an economist--you belong in 
management.

Cheers,
Chuck