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reason enough to fail the interview (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by groctel@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months 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 9 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

Which one?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably roller coaster tycoon...

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, right.

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