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The Aggregate Magic Algorithms

Some very interesting, and sometimes useful tricks to do things like swap two values without a temporary (which can be useful to trim memory usage to fit in memory cache for complex calculation loops on some platforms, or just to avoid the non-pairing 'exchange' instruction on x86) or how to calculate an average that can't overflow, or leading or trailing zero or ones counts, various semi-random stuff. :-)

And combining them can solve some interesting problems that can come up in lower-level systems hacking on highly pipelines platforms like modern-day Pentiums or to a much lesser extent modern Athlons.

But now... off to head out to pick up Talesin so I can get to Further Confusion. =^.^=

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Date: 2005-01-13 09:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lionman.livejournal.com
Um..wow. (Boggle.) Well, that would be very useful stuff, I suspect, when I once programmed in FORTRAN. But we live in the big and bloated world of C++ and beyond! ;-)

Be good at FC, and have a good time! Oh, and be safe, eh? :-)

*LionHUG*

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Date: 2005-01-13 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eibii.livejournal.com
Have a good time, eh? *snuggles* Give Heather a good fangirling for me! ... er, yeah. *koff*

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Date: 2005-01-19 01:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiohl.livejournal.com
*waves* Hello! :D

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