HIGH and LOW

[Dr. J. Van Sckalkwyk (External)]

Dear Tunespeople

Jecel (for whom I have immense respect, both because of his 
articulate communication and obvious comprehensive grasp of "low 
level" programming) wrote:

>>
The base semantics (BS) is what every program can count on.
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Ah! But that's the problem. Fare has NO BS. Period. If there is a 
common level, (??) it's somewhere way up in the so-called HLL.

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miss a chance to generate good code on CPUs that have this
as a single instruction. If you do 3D graphics "by hand"
in your application, putting a hardware accelerator won't
help at all.
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Which is why it is SO important to define your minimum necessary BS
as accurately as possible. This is what we should be talking about 
(after we shoot Fare)!

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There is a level of code that should be communication
protocol independent. And a level that has to deal
with the details. A level that is storage system
independent, and a level that is not. A clean interface
between them is the most important aspect of an OS
design.
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Hear, hear!

Bye, JVS.