It always baffled me to hear that quote, and then notice the examples in the art of programming are all done in ASM. We live in a an age where computers are so

It always baffled me to hear that quote, and then notice the examples in the art of programming are all done in ASM. We live in a an age where computers are so fast it's considered acceptable to be an engineer and just blurb out code and show people that "shit just works". That quote is indeed very misleading, because at the time, CPU were still getting faster frequencies, so optimizing problems were solving themselves. Today we face a problem where the faster algorithms are the one we need, because multithreading is hard, and also because there is no real tech to do clustering out of the box. I'll always smirk when I look at this quote, and look at spidermonkey, v8, chrome, and carmack's