From: "Clifford J. Nelson" <cnelson9@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/06/01
Date: 1999-06-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3753DA33.F2E088A0@gte.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 310519991456230875%hopperj@macconnect.com
"James E. Hopper" wrote:
> [snip]
>
> your comment that new machines are not faster than old because you have
> to do clever tricks to make them work is way off the mark. unless you
> went through it you have NO idea what gyrations we went through to make
> code run fast on those older machines. My head aches when i think what
> i went through getting fast code to run on the old 8 bit processors ;-)
> If anything i have found programmers today are much lazier about
> algorithms because they can get away with it more than they used to.
> your whole premise rests on the aburd comparison of comparing this
> simple algorith with an unknowns algorithm from years ago. unless you
> can present the source code for your comparison point there is no
> validity in your comparison!
>
> Jim
Jim,
I haven't been programming micro computers for the last ten years. I have
been using Mathematica since about 1989. See:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/geometry-research/brydilyum
From 1976 to 1989 I programmed a few micro computers and I remember just
storing the result of some computations in memory, and then setting the video
pointer to that area of memory. It took a few micro seconds to display the
result of the computations. All my experience with desk top computers
contradicts yours. They were very easy to program efficiently. Now that I
have something to program I find that the computers don't live up to
expectations anymore.
Cliff Nelson
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1999-05-18 0:00 ` Ada95 speed Tom Moran
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-31 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-01 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson [this message]
1999-06-01 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1999-06-02 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02 0:00 ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-06-02 0:00 ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Ada95 speed (wandering off topic slightly) Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Ada95 speed Robert I. Eachus
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-07 0:00 Robert I. Eachus
1999-06-07 0:00 ` tmoran
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1999-06-06 0:00 tmoran
1999-06-06 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-06 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-06-06 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-06 0:00 tmoran
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05 0:00 tmoran
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-05 0:00 ` William Starner
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-06 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-05 0:00 tmoran
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-06-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-05-18 0:00 Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-17 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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