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Re: [f-cpu] Winograd DCT on my seul.org account



On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
>Juergen Goeritz wrote:
>> Yes, you are right. But does this speed your development
>> time? Especially for f-cpu it will get very time consuming
>> to optimize by hand and thus will be omitted most of the
>> time. That's why the automatic process is preferable.
>
>Cache and latency timing is almost like the OLD SERIAL drum
>computers.Perhaps that might be a better model to optimize from. Still
>only about 10% of the code in any program needs speeding up if I
>remember right, but good programing skills are still needed because only
>the programer can pick the best algorithom for the job.

:-) guess you are right again with that algorithm thing.
I have followed a lot of nonsense discussions about why
object oriented programming is better. But actually it
depends. I have seen a lot of OO developments hitting
exactly the mid of the trash container because of that
algorithm thing...

JG

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