From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 10 10:20:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794AB37B5B7 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 10:20:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA44010; Wed, 10 May 2000 19:20:26 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 19:20:26 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "M. Adam Davis" Cc: "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: assembly vs C In-Reply-To: <39199883.35F74895@ubasics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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