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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (5 children)

What are you doing in assembly?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 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 10 months ago (3 children)

That doesn’t sound like optimization.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No worries, he can optimize it later.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

// TODO: fix this code

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

To you, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It's just reverse optimizing!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 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 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Pretending I was born 40 years earlier

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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)