Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 19:48:21 01/20/05
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On January 19, 2005 at 22:31:38, Russell Reagan wrote: >On January 19, 2005 at 19:17:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>What happens is that they are everywhere type mixing in their code and that >>'unsigned int' is less likely to give partial register stalls. > >When you say "type mixing", do you mean mixing signed and unsigned variables? Or >do you mean mixing 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit variables? People who use a mixer usually are overpragmatic and throw everything they have inside causing absolute chaos. The programmers doing that who do not know how to test we call spaghetticoders. Programmers who manage to get away with it by means of good testing we call genius programmers. However enter a new cpu type and the code of those genius programmers suddenly is 'unexplainable slow' as they hadn't thought of a new processor getting all kind of stalls or other weird phenomenons when coding in such manner. I would therefore refer to them as Houdini coders, always useless busy balancing between extremes of stupidity and optimization. Vincent
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