Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 11:28:32 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Josef El-Rayes <josef@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Most wanted Message-ID: <200403061128.32256.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <20040306024657.GE377@jenny.daemon.li> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0403011839470.3269-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <200403052217.56455.dgw@liwest.at> <20040306024657.GE377@jenny.daemon.li>
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On Saturday 06 March 2004 02:46, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> wrote: > > I know that it makes little sense to optimize parts of a > > program that are not computationally expensive, and I know that C or > > other high-level languages *can* incur a lot of overhead. > > algorithms > asm > > i respect your asm love, but i have to tell you that writing other stuff > than cpu specifics is just ineffictive. it is errorprone, takes a lot of > more time and it is machine dependent. > there is absolutely no reason to write code > in asm for normal applications. > and after all, best optimisation is good algorithms. asm does not help > you when you have bad O() in your algorithm. > > > I know it is true that, while I may have a great knowledge, I simply lack > > the experience in some areas. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > you would write in another way if you had *cough* great knowledge (sorry..) I mean, my knowledge is great with respect to my age. Or do you know many 16-year-olds with my knowledge?
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