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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

What are you doing in assembly?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months 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 9 months ago (3 children)

That doesn’t sound like optimization.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No worries, he can optimize it later.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

// TODO: fix this code

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

To you, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It's just reverse optimizing!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months 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] 40 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Pretending I was born 40 years earlier

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months 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)