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I Happen to Like Heroic Coding
- banned_man 18y agoWhen I first saw the headline, I thought the "heroic women" meme had crossed over to HN.
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- vinutheraj 18y agoDoes he explain what is "heroic coding" in the article anywhere ?!
- tvon 18y agohttp://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeroicProgramming http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeroicProgramming
- wmf 18y agoThe meaning in the article is different; it's more like "really clever code that only the smartest programmers can understand".
- jrockway 18y agoI think Atwood means heroic programming is programming that does something really neat, but is not worth the time it took to write. It is nice to emulate a GPU in software and get good performance, but it's easier to walk over to Best Buy and get their $20 graphics card instead.
- jrockway 18y agoMy current box is a Core 2 Duo (wolfdale) running at 3.8 GHz. That's interesting, as the Core 2 line only goes up to 3.33GHz.
- comatose_kid 18y agoOverclocked, perhaps?
- jrockway 18y agoGood point. I had forgotten that people still do that :)
- scott_s 18y agoI think Attwood missed the point of Abrash's Dr. Dobb's article: CPUs are changing. They will certainly be multicore, and they will likely be heterogeneous multicores, like Larabee, Cell or AMD Fusion. Basically, they're going to be a CPU and a GPU on the same chip. (If he did get this point, then he decided a different point was more interesting.)
- MaysonL 18y agoAbrash's Dr. Dobbs article is much more interesting: http://www.ddj.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=Z44EC3OCNDTWAQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=216402188&dept_url=/hpc-high-performance-computing/ http://www.ddj.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml;jsessionid...
- dinkumthinkum 18y agoSo what is the point of this? Why not post a link to Abrash's article instead? ... Atwood posts article without a point. News at 11.