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



On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:27:05PM +0200, Juergen Goeritz wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Michael Riepe wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 10:51:37AM +0200, Juergen Goeritz wrote:
> >[...]
> >> I spent a long, long time of my life optimizing code for
> >> processors - maybe you understand when I say, no more!
> >> I want an automatic approach.
> >
> >No compiler will ever be as good as a skilled assembler programmer.
> >It's only faster.
> 
> 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.

If you run a program once and want the result as fast as possible,
a compiler is much better. But if you run it a million times, writing
assembler code becomes pretty cheap.

-- 
 Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
 "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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