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From: "Clifford J. Nelson" <cnelson9@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/06/01
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"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