Its a Duff Device

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Post #101,565 by tuberculosis 5/12/03 8:50:05 PM Reply	Its a Duff Device and as an optimization for moving chunks of data rapidly its pretty good. "Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes. Contestants in a suicidal race." - Synchronicity II - The Police
Post #101,594 by deSitter 5/12/03 11:25:43 PM Reply	Yep - it's assembler in C -drl
Post #101,603 by ChrisR 5/13/03 12:25:46 AM Reply	Most ASM Languages have a SWAP instruction.
Post #101,651 by deSitter 5/13/03 11:18:05 AM Reply	Yes, not my point My point was that C is syntactically capable of these kinds of weird things you might use at a very low level. -drl
Post #101,657 by ChrisR 5/13/03 11:27:46 AM Reply	And my point... ... (if there's really a point to be made) is that this is even lower level than assembly language (unless you count the One Instruction Machine). More like programming ASIC's. :-)
Post #101,654 by JimWeirich 5/13/03 11:20:14 AM Reply	SWAP? SWAP? Did you mean MOVB/MOVW? -- -- Jim Weirich jweirich@one.net [link\|http://w3.one.net/~jweirich\|http://w3.one.net/~jweirich] --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)

Cringely on Refactoring - (tjsinclair) - (41) - May 9, 2003, 11:34:40 AM EDT

He's still skirting the real issues to make his "point". - (admin) - (39) - May 9, 2003, 11:44:55 AM EDT

Good point - (tjsinclair) - (38) - May 9, 2003, 11:57:52 AM EDT

Do I use unit tests? - (admin) - (34) - May 9, 2003, 12:25:32 PM EDT

Apparently my question sounded dumber than it actually was - (tjsinclair) - (33) - May 9, 2003, 12:53:25 PM EDT

Lessons to be gleaned: - (admin) - (16) - May 9, 2003, 01:00:45 PM EDT

Great stuff! - (tjsinclair) - (2) - May 9, 2003, 01:09:15 PM EDT

Re: Great stuff! - (admin) - May 9, 2003, 02:04:17 PM EDT

C++ unit testing - sounds painful - (tuberculosis) - May 10, 2003, 10:16:03 PM EDT

More: - (admin) - (1) - May 9, 2003, 02:14:49 PM EDT

Code coverage - (Simon_Jester) - May 9, 2003, 03:33:25 PM EDT

How does JUnit (and the like) deal with web pages? - (drewk) - (5) - May 9, 2003, 02:45:32 PM EDT

Not really specific to PHP. - (admin) - (3) - May 9, 2003, 02:50:06 PM EDT

Also from that page - (drewk) - (2) - May 9, 2003, 03:05:10 PM EDT

HttpUnit is more useful for integration testing. - (admin) - May 9, 2003, 03:08:18 PM EDT

We use PHPUnit where I work. - (static) - May 10, 2003, 12:17:17 AM EDT

I'm experimenting with testing dynamic content ... - (JimWeirich) - May 9, 2003, 05:30:28 PM EDT

Can I quote this thread? - (tjsinclair) - (4) - May 9, 2003, 04:15:07 PM EDT

Even better: - (admin) - (2) - May 9, 2003, 04:21:19 PM EDT

No, you can't use my comments - (drewk) - May 9, 2003, 05:10:44 PM EDT

Thanks! - (tjsinclair) - May 9, 2003, 08:43:43 PM EDT

A TDD Example - (JimWeirich) - May 9, 2003, 05:09:24 PM EDT

Ooh, he left out the ^ - (tuberculosis) - (15) - May 10, 2003, 10:01:19 PM EDT

That's just evil to the core. :-) -NT - (ChrisR) - (1) - May 10, 2003, 11:37:38 PM EDT

It's C++, what do you expect? -NT - (tuberculosis) - May 11, 2003, 05:43:45 PM EDT

I would only use that if it were properly commented. -NT - (static) - (12) - May 12, 2003, 08:43:53 AM EDT

I'd probably never use it at all - (tuberculosis) - (11) - May 12, 2003, 10:35:20 AM EDT

Its a cool parlor trick... - (jb4) - (10) - May 12, 2003, 01:08:32 PM EDT

Not even really a C++ issue as such, is it? - (deSitter) - (9) - May 12, 2003, 01:25:21 PM EDT

Its a Duff Device - (tuberculosis) - (5) - May 12, 2003, 08:50:05 PM EDT

Yep - it's assembler in C -NT - (deSitter) - (4) - May 12, 2003, 11:25:43 PM EDT

Most ASM Languages have a SWAP instruction. -NT - (ChrisR) - (3) - May 13, 2003, 12:25:46 AM EDT

Yes, not my point - (deSitter) - (1) - May 13, 2003, 11:18:05 AM EDT

And my point... - (ChrisR) - May 13, 2003, 11:27:46 AM EDT

SWAP? - (JimWeirich) - May 13, 2003, 11:20:14 AM EDT

That's ANSI C?!? - (jb4) - (2) - May 14, 2003, 01:46:33 PM EDT

That's ANSI C?!? ... YES - (JimWeirich) - May 14, 2003, 01:58:08 PM EDT

Re: That's ANSI C?!? - (deSitter) - May 14, 2003, 02:22:19 PM EDT

Re: Good point - (JimWeirich) - (2) - May 9, 2003, 03:05:12 PM EDT

Another good point - (admin) - (1) - May 9, 2003, 03:10:26 PM EDT

Me too. - (static) - May 10, 2003, 12:19:54 AM EDT

FWIW, Squeak is undergoing a huge refactoring effort - (tuberculosis) - May 10, 2003, 10:07:09 PM EDT

Using this formulation, the cat can be dead and deader.
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