A83: Re: Re: why bother (optimization of code)...

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Subject: A83: Re: Re: why bother (optimization of code)...
From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 21:20:38 -0600
References: <19991217062446.71849.qmail@hotmail.com> <00c901bf4985$7771fbe0$e8d379c3@default>
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org


Well, of course, if you're going to program in asm, those are just things
you do by habit.  But that is nothing more than a simple peep-hole optimizer
could/should do...  True optimization is in algorithm AND code.

> Optimize where you can (i.e. using XOR A and JR instead of LD A,0 and JP),
> but when the optimizations make a mess of your code and completely
> desctructs the structure, don't do it. For example, I could make all my
code
> a hell of a lot faster by deleting all subroutines (very slow CALLs and
RETs
> will be deleted and I can improve every ex-sub copy to have maximum
> communication with the surrounding code), but if I want to modify
something
> later, I can't understand my own source anymore because it's such a
mess...
> It's optimized, okay. But if that's worth it...
>
>
> ~Grauw
>
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A83: why bother

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A83: Re: why bother (optimization of code)...

From: "Laurens Holst" <laurensh1@yahoo.com>