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reason enough to fail the interview (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by groctel@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Remember the olden C days before compilers got really good (and freely available) so we'd still have inline assembly everywhere for better optimization lol.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And then there's good old Chris Sawyer, writing an entire (fairly complex) game completely in Assembly, because he wanted the (actually kind of computationally heavy) game to still work on potato hardware.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which one?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably roller coaster tycoon...

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, right.

But this was at a time when compilers weren't better than you in optimizing.