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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Random numbers et alRe: Random numbers et al
From: Blue Chip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 09:19:01 +0100 >>Yes, again, this is a kickback of having to be anal about writing efficient >>code. The philosophy I have been forced to work with in the past can be >>summed up by the UK expression "count the pennies and the pounds will take >>care of themselves." > >I do not agree. That's fair enough, it was a very subjective opinion, my previous experience is mainly in "critical systems" work. Perhaps it is not as relevant as I first thought. >Look what happens in the DSP world, nobody uses assembler for >the DSP anymore except in some special cases (95% of the CPU usage is >probably in >5% of the code, the only worth optimizing). ...yes, this was the bit I was suggesting could be optimised!? >The code is all written in C because >the compilers are *good* and the next DSP is only 3 month away. You do not >want to >rewrite your assembler stuff all the time. Before spending 6 month to >optimize your >code, you can wait 3 month for the more powerfull DSP. ...ccooowelll, is the full info online anywhere? For a start "how much?" <:-))) Again, my 'newbie' apologies, I was unaware that you could upgrade the DSP in these little babies >One of my students once tried to optimize a loop in assembler, GCC beat >him by one >assembler command :-) One is left only to presume that assembler was not his strong point ;) Bc Received on 2003-04-07 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |