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From: "Manfred Riem" <mriem@win.tue.nl>
To: "'Daniela'" <dgw@liwest.at>,
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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?

Whether or not your knowledge is better than other 16 year olds
is not an issue here. Chatting on advocacy about this stuff is.
Please be so kind to move this to freebsd-chat@freebsd.org ;)

Regards,

Manfred Riem
mriem@win.tue.nl
http://www.riaca.win.tue.nl/