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- From: don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
- Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithm
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.141300.3528@clark.dgim.doc.ca>
- Sender: news@clark.dgim.doc.ca (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca
- Organization: Communication Research Centre
- References: <TMB.92Nov13104609@arolla.idiap.ch>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:13:00 GMT
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- I believe Herman knows about the best algorythms for what he is doing. Therefore
- I suspect you folks who say try another algorythm are wasting bandwidth.
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- I believe correct results are far more important to Herman than the wrong answer
- 3 times as quickly. Therefore the folks arguing over which is more important,
- correctness or speed, are also wasting bandwidth.
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- Some of you seem to be getting the impression that Herman starts with highly
- optimised code.
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- I suspect he writes code to verify the algorythm works. He then optimises the
- hell out of it. Then when he posts it and asks for help for further
- optimisations no one can easily understand the code.
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- If what you really want is nice un-optimised code to look at, I suspect Herman
- would comply (as it is in his best interests) is you asked nicely.
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- Donald McLachlan e-mail don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca
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