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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What are you doing in assembly?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Manually optimizing the code I wrote in C, so that it runs noticeably slower and has all sorts of stupid bugs that weren't there before. All in a good night's work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That doesn’t sound like optimization.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No worries, he can optimize it later.

[–] TheGreenGolem 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Put a refactor ticket in the backlog. We'll get to it eventually, right?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

// TODO: fix this code

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

To you, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It's just reverse optimizing!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Well, I guess it's either writing a device driver or that.

And the device driver will always end-up with most code in C or Rust.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Pretending I was born 40 years earlier

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Doing vector operations because the MCU vendor didn't provide APIs for it.

(did not actually do that but was preparing to before we came to our senses and ditched that MCU)