[plug] SME PC hardware linux supplier?

[Brad Campbell]

Chris Caston wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:19, Harry wrote:

>>You are all hooligans :) I'm suggesting that every clock cycle you save
>>means lighter hardware and less energy use. This might sound a bit like
>>a rant from Mung Bean Man but coding efficiently has an impact on everything
>>from hardware to greenhouse emissions.

> 
> Spyware filled computers are destroying the environment?
> 

Spam trojan writer == environmental terrorist?

On that note, I concur with Harry. Having said that, I am a hand beaten, lead-wipe, kind of bare 
metal efficiency freak who as been known to re-write algorithms 4 or 5 times to squeeze out those 
last couple of clock cycles. Even on a PC in Pascal :p)

Just checking out the ICCC Obfuscated C contest results.
You have to love an X based racing game with a source/code size like this

bklaptop:~/vik>ls -la
total 44
drwxr-xr-x    2 brad brad  4096 Nov 10 16:34 .
drwxr-xr-x  121 brad brad 16384 Nov 10 16:34 ..
-rw-rw-r--    1 brad brad  7049 Nov 10 14:58 Makefile
-rwxrwxr-x    1 brad brad 10028 Nov 10 16:34 vik1
-rw-rw-r--    1 brad brad  2935 Nov 10 14:58 vik1.c

Nevermind I can't actually read/understand the code. Neato!

Almost as good as the version of snake I have

bklaptop:~/src>ls snake* -la
-rwxrwxr-x  1 brad brad  1496 Jun 20  2003 snake
-rw-rw-r--  1 brad brad 22252 Apr  1  2001 snake.asm


Brad