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  1. Toothpaste Pony! Toothpaste Pony!

    !coderpony Programmer hell for me was when I was analyzing a disassembly of another person's program and had to figure out what all the FPU instructions did. Did you know: doing something like "3.14f > 96" causes the compiler/assembler/linker to emit like 40 different OPcode that run on the FPU? (Protip: Floating point math is VERY expensive when it comes to speed of an application.)

    Friday, 04-May-12 20:12:10 UTC from web
    1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

      @minti Yeah, floating-point math sucks. This is why we measure FLOPS.

      Friday, 04-May-12 20:18:17 UTC from web