"Nobody programs in machine language"

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Mon Jun 21 21:53:41 2004

It was written...
> I remember one program where I, honest to god, had to optimize the code
> because I was something like 7 bytes too big, and had to go through the
> code and figure out whether I could move some data to the 6502's "page
> zero" RAM or use some other technique to shave off the extra bytes!

Remember... in the ART of assembler programming.... shaving off the size of
the code is only 49% of the art. The 51% of the ART is shaving off cpu
cycles necessary to run it by careful choice of instructions and algorithms
and data structures :)

Jay West
Received on Mon Jun 21 2004 - 21:53:41 BST