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[FissionMailed1]

Originally Posted by Patashu

What do you write that needs to be so efficient

Basically like you already said, embedded systems. Well, it is my primary interest as of right now. There is a defense contract not too far from my school which does embedded development for the department of defense, which I would like to pursue. Also, parallel computing was my second choice of a career path to pursue. Basically, anything that involves getting the most performance I can out of a computer, because I'm a performance nut :P

Originally Posted by Patashu

I didn't get any computer architecture classes when I got my degree ;_;

The thing about 'learning assembly makes you a better optimizer' is that the most important part of optimization is reducing big O notation. (Well, actually, it's not optimizing until you need to. Whatevs) And doing that requires a strong algorithmic grasp, and you don't need much low level knowledge for that - you just have to be aware of what things execute in constant, linear, logarithmic and quadratic time under the covers. (Sometimes hardware comes into it - hard disk accesses vs ram accesses, sequential hard disk access vs random hard disk access, cache misses and thrashing, etc). Often your optimization problems are solved by using a different collection type (priority queue, tree, hash map), adding on a cache, failing fast, figuring out how to use one less loop and so on. These can be understood intuitively in terms of their algorithmic qualities.

Like, if computer science courses should make you 'industry ready' they'd have a focus on molding your brain around very huge codebases and projects. This is a different kind of difficulty and one more relevant to most disciplines (maybe you'd get to pick a course to take? low level programming or big mclarge huge programming). So it would still be hard just different-hard, and as long as you're getting challenged you become more disciplined and more familiar.

There are exceptions of course, besides embedded programming. Video/audio processing and pattern recognition algorithms are almost impossible to grok unless you are thinking at a very low, hard level about them. And since they're so intensive they basically have to be C or C++ coded (such as OpenGL).

Yes, knowing how to mathematically analyze an algorithm is an important part of writing "better code", but it's just that; a part. That's why I mentioned a computer architecture course for all of the hardware related stuff (my school has one, luckily), which is another part of writing "better code". I may be a bit OCD (more than likely), but like managing my own memory, I like knowing how things work under the covers, so I can feel confident that I wrote something as efficiently as I could given my knowledge.

Can't comment on the second paragraph since I don't have experience here since I am still in school.

Finally, the third paragraph was basically what I was getting with the first part I quoted and answered.

[Patashu]

Originally Posted by FissionMailed1

Basically like you already said, embedded systems. Well, it is my primary interest as of right now. There is a defense contract not too far from my school which does embedded development for the department of defense, which I would like to pursue. Also, parallel computing was my second choice of a career path to pursue. Basically, anything that involves getting the most performance I can out of a computer, because I'm a performance nut :P

That is pretty cool

Yes, knowing how to mathematically analyze an algorithm is an important part of writing "better code", but it's just that; a part. That's why I mentioned a computer architecture course for all of the hardware related stuff (my school has one, luckily), which is another part of writing "better code". I may be a bit OCD (more than likely), but like managing my own memory, I like knowing how things work under the covers, so I can feel confident that I wrote something as efficiently as I could given my knowledge.

That is cool, but most of the time what I write is fast enough that I don't need to worry about doing memory management manually or anything else, which is why I don't program in C++ by default. So it depends a lot on your problem domain, if you do scientific analysis/image processing/similarly hard data processing you'd probably pick C++ by default again.

[kommisar]

Originally Posted by Patashu

Gameboy games are not coded in C, they are coded in an assembly language called Z80. Unless some amazing dude wrote a C -> Z80 compiler in which case hit me up

( http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulat...t:-Integration good read)

http://www.loirak.com/gameboy/gbprog.php


"Some of you may prefer to use WLA-DX as an assembler, which also contains Z80 and 6502 compilers along with a few others. "

[Patashu]

Originally Posted by kommisar

http://www.loirak.com/gameboy/gbprog.php


"Some of you may prefer to use WLA-DX as an assembler, which also contains Z80 and 6502 compilers along with a few others. "

That is pretty sick

[Ghakimx]

Since day 1 for me, you have not changed your avatar. Why?

[Patashu]

Originally Posted by Ghakimx

Since day 1 for me, you have not changed your avatar. Why?

Why would I change it?

[SKG_Scintill]

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[SKG_Scintill]

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