<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 November 2011 23:45, Tomasz Rola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rtomek@ceti.pl">rtomek@ceti.pl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, Stefano Vaj wrote:<br>
> What's wrong with dear, old Assembly for performance-sensitive tasks?<br>
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</div></div>Nothing is wrong with that. Except few things.<br>
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One is, there is no point to do trivial things faster.</blockquote><div><br>Yes, it was to some extent a tongue-in-cheek remark and an emoticon remains for once in my pen. <br><br>In principle what you say corresponds to my own ideas with regard to energy saving, or taylorism in work organisation: nothing wrong in efficiency, but the dividends are asymptotical at best, and what really matters at the end of the day is more the available power than squeezing the last drop of juice out of it.<br>
<br>OTOH, whenever we are faced with endless repetitions of relatively simple tasks, small increases in efficiencies may indeed make a difference and pay for themselves. And, yes, a cultural loss in our ability to deal with low level aspects of such tasks may be considered as a decadent trait. At least until machines themselves will be able to outperform us in such dealing.<br>
<br clear="all"></div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>