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Malic
on June 7, 2010
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You can’t beat a good compiler…. right?
I think the Euro-demo coders of the 80s made it clear that handwritten assembly can be optimized to a ridiculous point of efficiency.
sjf
on June 7, 2010
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Very true. But these were specifically intended to test the limits of coding. In other situations, you have to ask yourself, is this really adding value?
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