Re: [LAD] Optimisations

2014-08-19 Thread Will Godfrey
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:36:35 + Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 06:11:33PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: > > A long time ago ... in a land far away :) > > I did some assembler programming on the Acorn Archimedes (ARM 2/3) and > > worked > > out a series of additions and subtract

Re: [LAD] Optimisations

2014-08-18 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 06:11:33PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: > A long time ago ... in a land far away :) > I did some assembler programming on the Acorn Archimedes (ARM 2/3) and worked > out a series of additions and subtractions that would perform very fast > multiplication of awkward numbers by

Re: [LAD] Optimisations

2014-08-18 Thread Cedric Roux
On 08/18/2014 07:11 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: A long time ago ... in a land far away :) I did some assembler programming on the Acorn Archimedes (ARM 2/3) and worked out a series of additions and subtractions that would perform very fast multiplication of awkward numbers by known amounts. Is there

[LAD] Optimisations

2014-08-18 Thread Will Godfrey
A long time ago ... in a land far away :) I did some assembler programming on the Acorn Archimedes (ARM 2/3) and worked out a series of additions and subtractions that would perform very fast multiplication of awkward numbers by known amounts. Is there any point in doing this for C programs, or ar