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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:12:13 -0500
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No reason to get your blood boiling.  Remember high level languages have can
have some speed trade-offs; this is risk you take when you allow the machine
to do the compiling.  Of course with modern pipelined processors I would
rather the compiler do all the fancy tricks to tweak out all the speed
instead of me manually scheduling instructions to avoid stalls.

-CRM

"Jano" <402450@cepsz.unizar.es> wrote in message
news:MPG.16ee10f0509986e9896f2@news.cis.dfn.de...
> I'm pretty sure many of us know Steven Gibson. Today I've tested a
> freeware from him. In the instructions page he made these statements:
>
> "All of my programs are so small and so fast because I write only in the
> one, true, computer language: Assembly Language. All other languages
> reduce to assembly language, but they lose a lot in the translation.
> (Judge for yourself.)"
>
> "People who can't program in assembly language (just about everyone) get
> really annoyed with me when I talk about how much better it is than their
> pet language. But it's not my fault if they just say they care about
> quality."
>
> My blood is boiling. I want only to share to cool me a little down.
>
> --
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> Jano
> 402450@cepsz.unizar.es
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