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James Gregory 2013-12-30 15:37:13 +11:00
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<table border="1">
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<td><a href="about_author.html">Previous</a></td>
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<a href="about_author.html">Previous</a>
</td>
<td><a href="index.html">Table of Contents</a></td>
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<a href="index.html">Table of Contents</a>
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<td><a href="01-02.html">Next</a></td>
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<p><br /></p>
<h2 align="center"><i>Part I</i></h2>
<h2 id="Heading1">Chapter 1<br />
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<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s a fast slow program?&rdquo; you ask. That&rsquo;s a good question, and a brief (true) story is perhaps the best answer.</p>
<h4 align="left" id="Heading4">When Fast Isn&rsquo;t Fast</h4>
<h4 id="Heading4">When Fast Isn&rsquo;t Fast</h4>
<p>In the early 1970s, as the first hand-held calculators were hitting the market, I knew a fellow named Irwin. He was a good student, and was planning to be an engineer. Being an engineer back then meant knowing how to use a slide rule, and Irwin could jockey a slipstick with the best of them. In fact, he was so good that he challenged a fellow with a calculator to a duel&mdash;and won, becoming a local legend in the process.</p>
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<p>What does all this have to do with programming? Plenty. When you spend time optimizing poorly-designed assembly code, or when you count on an optimizing compiler to make your code fast, you&rsquo;re wasting the optimization, much as Irwin did. Particularly in assembly, you&rsquo;ll find that without proper up-front design and everything else that goes into high-performance design, you&rsquo;ll waste considerable effort and time on making an inherently slow program as fast as possible&mdash;which is still slow&mdash;when you could easily have improved performance a great deal more with just a little thought. As we&rsquo;ll see, handcrafted assembly language and optimizing compilers matter, but less than you might think, in the grand scheme of things&mdash;and they scarcely matter at all unless they&rsquo;re used in the context of a good design and a thorough understanding of both the task at hand and the PC.</p>
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<center>
<table border="1">
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<td><a href="about_author.html">Previous</a></td>
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<a href="about_author.html">Previous</a>
</td>
<td><a href="index.html">Table of Contents</a></td>
<td>
<a href="index.html">Table of Contents</a>
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<td><a href="01-02.html">Next</a></td>
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