This never would have happened if they had just called it the Linux Colonel instead. Governments and corporations around the world would be terrified of the swift and decisive ruin, which befalls any who try to stop the Linux Colonel and his development.
We might have to lose the penguin...or at least give him an assault rifle.
As a DSP firmware developer the only code I can rely on is the code I generate myself. For most signal processing applications, speed is the most important objective and sacrificing readability (which can be remedied with good comments) is well worth a few extra cycles. You really can't trust a high level language compiler to always pick the best method for a particular task.
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This never would have happened if they had just called it the Linux Colonel instead. Governments and corporations around the world would be terrified of the swift and decisive ruin, which befalls any who try to stop the Linux Colonel and his development. We might have to lose the penguin...or at least give him an assault rifle.
As a DSP firmware developer the only code I can rely on is the code I generate myself. For most signal processing applications, speed is the most important objective and sacrificing readability (which can be remedied with good comments) is well worth a few extra cycles. You really can't trust a high level language compiler to always pick the best method for a particular task.