POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Invisible: PureData : Re: Invisible: PureData Server Time
3 Sep 2024 19:18:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Invisible: PureData  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 18 Feb 2011 09:11:33
Message: <4d5e7e15$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/16/2011 10:20 AM, Invisible wrote:

>
> There's a reason most people don't write assembly any more.
>

It's called pipelined instructions with multiple simultaneous units that 
require operations in a certain order in order to be most efficient, and 
sometimes even a strategic NOP just to get the instructions to pipe 
properly. A compiler is faster at implementing these rules than a person.

-- 
~Mike


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