Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 02:18:10 08/08/03
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On August 07, 2003 at 23:21:56, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 07, 2003 at 08:58:21, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >It is a waste of time to actively PROGRAM in assembly for PC applications like >this one. I won't say it's a waste for the NT kernel for example. Each new >generation of cpu's requires an entire rewrite of the program. But well written >C code keeps portable. > >If Frans each new version first has to rewrite in order to get it to work better >at the new processor then some who read this for the first time now know what >his daily work is. > >Working hard to get the current program ported. > >That he manages to make some modifications as well to it is really amazing. > >That some people like Sune and i know many other programmers who didn't post >here but have loads of inline assembly too written. Half of them regrets it now. > >Of course taking a look to how assembly works and what is faster for a processor >is a different thing. Study is never bad. Wasting time on getting routine X to >work in your own written assembly just to get your program 0.001% faster is >really a waste of time where you write at the same time that buying an opteron >is not interesting yet as it is too expensive. > >Just buy that bit faster hardware and don't make it in assembly :) > >Saves time. Saves money. > >Just throw some hardware at it! > >Of course i won't say it is smart for everyone to throw 500 cpu's at it. > >I'll do that for them with DIEP :) > >Oh by the way in case i didn't mention it. I can compile diep at that machine >because i use NO assembly at it. > >I find it very funny to read that most bitboarders first slow down their program >in case of Sune to get 30% faster using inline assembly :) > >Same for Isenberg's Kogge Stone project. Move generation just in those >registers? Hehehehehehehehehe. Waste of your time Gerd! Hehehehe. For me a set based approach fits better in my abstactions schemes and thinking patterns. I don't think it is a waste of time - at least it is fun for me. Gerd <snip>
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