Posts Tagged ‘c’
Learning to Code
15Sep16
TL;DR Code defines our relationship with machines, and we all have a unique relationship with machines because we all learn code differently. This is my journey. Yours won’t be the same, because ‘the past is a foreign land’. All that I can hope is that there are some lessons/inspiration here. Background This post was inspired […]
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The compiler will not save you
12Oct13
…at least not in an embedded environment. There’s a commonly held myth in modern software development that compilers are smarter than people at optimising code for its eventual runtime environment. By extension there’s no point in writing efficient code, because your idea of efficient code might not actually be all that efficient, and any time […]
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Tags: binary, c, compiler, microcontroller, msp430, optimisation, size