Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502

Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by commandlinefan on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:24PM (#20397314)

I learned to program on a 6502 when I was younger - it's a little depressing that computers went and got so fast that there's no real justification for doing this sort of thing any more in almost any domain (except, I guess, if you manage to land a position developing embedded I2C drivers).

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Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by jhayward on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:06PM (#20398047)

Join the ultra-low-power crowd! There are lots of fun things to make while trying to squeeze it in a couple of KB and a few kHz.

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Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by chrischen on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:34PM (#20397403)

Yes but there are new primitive domains to master, like driving a motor with an arduino, or programming FPGAs.

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Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by djmips on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:22PM (#20398705)

I beg to differ; shader / GPU programming has been a haven for justification of programming 'that sort of thing'. Particularly on home consoles where the hardware doesn't change year on year but the need to improve is still prevalent.

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Re:Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502 by fzort on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:47AM (#20402461)

You still need to know a bit of assembly to take advantage of SIMD (even when using compiler intrinsics). See for instance https://github.com/lemire/simdjson

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