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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What are you doing in assembly?

[–] herrvogel 65 points 1 year 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.

[–] Coreidan 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That doesn’t sound like optimization.

[–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No worries, he can optimize it later.

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

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

[–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 12 points 1 year ago

// TODO: fix this code

[–] herrvogel 9 points 1 year ago

To you, maybe.

[–] Hellstormy 5 points 1 year ago

It's just reverse optimizing!

[–] marcos 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] ikidd 39 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Pretending I was born 40 years earlier

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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)