From: Guillermo (Bill) J. Rozas
Subject: Re: Compiler abstractions [was: Wanted: programming language for 9 yr old]
Date:
Message-ID: <GJR.95Oct3133926@hplgr2.hpl.hp.com>
In article <·························@kdolan-mac.qualcomm.com> ········@qualcomm.com (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
| From: ········@qualcomm.com (Kent Paul Dolan)
| Subject: Compiler abstractions [was: Wanted: programming language for 9 yr old]
| Date: 2 Oct 1995 19:46:02 GMT
| By an accident of history, I happen to understand exactly how an adder
| works, down to the transistor level.
|
| Under no circumstances do I want to be bothered with that level of detail
| when the task at hand is adding A to B to yield C, and then printing the
| value contained in C.
I'm not sure I agree with this. I believe that carry-saves adders are
one of the greatest of hacks, and a useful trick to consider if you
want to implement a high-performance multi-precision arithmetic
package.