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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 17:17:00 GMT
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- >babbage@dmu.ac.uk (Babbage) wrote:
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- >>> The future generation of CPUs will be so complex that no Assembler
- >>> programmer could ever hope to create code as efficient as a compiler.
- >>> It would simply not be possible!
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- >>oh dear =:)
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- > What's wrong?
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- > Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Given that (s)he knows everything about
- >the workings of the CPU, a human will always be able to generate
- >better code than a compiler. BUT: Would you really like to sit there
- >and annotate 100,000 lines of unreadable code with pipelining
- >information (which takes bloody ages), when you could leave this to
- >the compiler?? Especially if the overall performance gain is so
- >negligible that the average CPU speed increased more during the period
- >you spent optimizing your code?
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- That's why for every CPU, I create its HighLevelAssembly, to let the machine
- do everything that the human doesn't need to do.
- The C is not the only alternative: it's only *the worst* alternative. :D
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- And HLA is easier than Basic.. :)
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