Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 19:20:26 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "M. Adam Davis" <adavis@ubasics.com> Cc: "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: assembly vs C Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000510191854.5152G-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <39199883.35F74895@ubasics.com>
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On Wed, 10 May 2000, M. Adam Davis wrote: [snip] > Then you have supercomputers preforming floating point operations (for weather, > satellite, atomic simulations). Given that a particular simulation requires a > particular loop to be executed several billion times, it pays to code it in > assembly (especially when you find out what the supercomputer costs to run per > second) > Heh. That's why practically all of that software is written in Fortran, right? > So, in short, C will not replace assembly (machine code). Just remember the > predictions of the paperless office of tomorrow... We won't have a machine > language-less office of tommorow, though it will become less used in favor of > speed. > > -Adam > > "The paperless office will come soon after the paperless toilet" > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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