Thanks to Knuth SKA's Merging Stage 1 is 90% faster

[Fungus]

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Originally Posted by AtW
In just couple of days I will be writing code in assembly...

Damn. Now you've really impressed everyone...

Especially those of us who've been writing it for 25 years or more...

I started writing assembly language 26 years ago.
I stopped writing assembly language 26 years ago.

I remember using punched cards.

[Adopts cod Yorkshire accent] Aye, youngsters these days don't know what hardship is, when I were lad, we had to use slide rules, and a pen and paper. Those wer' days.

[scotspine]

*dodges trampling feet, grabs Orange Hopper by the ears and drags him out...*

I saw you going down for the 3rd time OH. How many thimes have I warned about playing with the big boys? You're no match for the egos out there...

**dusts him down, turns him about and shoves him smartly back into the fray** - one of the best field theorists we have cojak. if ever a man knew his buzzers from his nobblers, oh is yer man!

[Sysman]

I remember using punched cards.

Using 'em?

Nay lad. I used to mek t'buggers wi an 'and punch.

[Adopts cod Yorkshire accent] Aye, youngsters these days don't know what hardship is, when I were lad, we had to use slide rules, and a pen and paper. Those wer' days.

Slide rules??? Not accurate enough - we had to use logs.

[OwlHoot]

Using 'em?

Nay lad. I used to mek t'buggers wi an 'and punch.

Slide rules??? Not accurate enough - we had to use logs.

Logs? Luxury, from that upstart Napier.

We had to use prosthaphaeresis

[OrangeHopper]

That be nobblers that be.

[xoggoth]

I cannot bear innacuracy!!!!! Psion wrote software for the Sinclair QL not the Spectrum. Darn good machine the QL, still have two in my attric, can't bear to throw them away. (Or rather flog them to the strange old beardy sorts who still use them)

[Churchill]

Aye, those were the days.

Trying to stick bits of chad back into the holes in the card to correct a mistake... funny how that never worked...

Standing on the paper tape as it fed into the reader, thus ripping it in half...

ah, those were the days...

Going deaf because of the din the card punch made...

Freezing to death in the summer because of the airconditioning...

Kids today, they just don't know...

ZG, I propose that we put you in a museum - stuffed of course...

[cojak]

*Grabs Le Bert, covers head and dives under table*

[PerlOfWisdom]

Thanks to Knuth SKA's Merging Stage 1 is 90% faster

Next week I will be using assembly language for the first time in many years to optimise yet another part of SKA - I am smiling at the pleasure I will have making a few functions run 10 times faster

10 times faster is 900% faster, not 90%

Anyway, real programmers refine their own silicon!

[boredsenseless]

10 times faster is 900% faster, not 90%

Anyway, real programmers refine their own silicon!

Did anyone here do Comp Science at University since Knuth is a huge part of most syllabuses, so AtW I did all this 13 years ago - get with the programme and get up to date