Isn’t it funny how the real world mimicks the games we play? First it was the Tokyo sewer that came straight out of Half-Life 2, now it’s real fish that looks just like Seaman!
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Archive for January 20th, 2005
Fish Face
Thursday, January 20th, 2005
Assembly optimizations
Thursday, January 20th, 2005I’ve mentioned articles before theorizing that CPUs are hitting a ceiling in terms of processor power, so we should concetrate more on optimizing our programs.
But after reading this next article, I’ve come to the conclusion that processors are too complex for hand-optimization anymore. Raymond Chen, Optimization is often counter-intuitive
I don’t think it will be possible to keep up with the technology being built into the latest CPUs. It’s just so complex. Just let the compiler handle it.
It’s sad to think that the whole art form of assembly language will practically disappear. It makes books like Michael Abrash’s Black Book more of a history book rather than something you could actually use.