Re: Bit manipulation

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <rwDP5.415395$i5.7092109@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>,
  tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> >You just HAVE to be sensitive to cache and TLB-miss issues
> >in modern programming if performance is an issue. Far too
> At what point in a programmer's education is this taught
> these days?


Hard to say, since things are very variable. All too often
the answer is not at all. At NYU, we used to have the whole
second year be assembly language programming and machine
and system architecture. But the faculty found that too
much, and it was cut to one semester. Quite a few folks
on the NYU faculty would like to cut out that remaining
semester as a required course, and make it an elective on
the grounds that most people don't need to know low level
stuff, and I am afraid that viewpoint (which I strongly
object to) has already found favor at many major universities,
and people can get an undergraduate degree without this
material ever being taught.


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