Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 03:46:57 +0100 From: Josef El-Rayes <josef@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Most wanted Message-ID: <20040306024657.GE377@jenny.daemon.li> In-Reply-To: <200403052217.56455.dgw@liwest.at> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0403011839470.3269-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <200403051855.35905.dgw@liwest.at> <200403051054.33146.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <200403052217.56455.dgw@liwest.at>
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--UBnjLfzoMQYIXCvq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> wrote: > I know that it makes little sense to optimize parts of a=20 > program that are not computationally expensive, and I know that C or othe= r=20 > 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 th= an cpu specifics is just ineffictive. it is errorprone, takes a lot of more ti= me 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=20 > experience in some areas. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ you would write in another way if you had *cough* great knowledge (sorry..) greets, josef ps: this should not be on advocacy really. --=20 Josef El-Rayes (__) Email: josef@daemon.li \\\'',)=20 Web: http://daemon.li/ \/ \ ^ FreeBSD: josef@FreeBSD.org .\._/_) --UBnjLfzoMQYIXCvq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iQEVAwUBQEk7oVnFItmnnbU8AQKhWQgAglx3LRCggGRwRHk0nTwq6U1BtTds9cbW zLlRS0sbK0xkl1NFNV5vCMSm8lM+n3m0yeqeP8a2sabGB9Hg7ZZmmayhQjCG+Iiz wWnimgJs8/Ju7ieUhyjZI4kvA3b7qcVmssGkzUjY+yzoxXalyUhoknBAzBEU+COB G1aTdwKZwz129kgp1JPEVxLD2Ai/9MVcB8p2d3ZboMmKx6r9B5OtrHlLbljtGYBD UMJr9TBrispvDDFuANtAAdNRfhRYdZwJ25El+4ntMdZUXpbBh5ZY2GodJFPeTZRL doZ5w/hXPpIQ755plxua84ErZ3aZtsIYc1yhg3RbW6uABgr4NCzJHg== =Fdv+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UBnjLfzoMQYIXCvq--
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