@Jonathan_Blow It strikes me that the author has probably never programmed in assembler, or he'd realise how computers actually work.
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@grumpygiant@Jonathan_Blow So to make sure you don't have to dec-by-one before each indexing op, you'd have to pre-back-up your pointers? -
@grumpygiant@Jonathan_Blow Seems like you really wouldn't want to do that, regardless of the history, but maybe I'm missing something. - Show replies
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@cmuratori@grumpygiant@Jonathan_Blow The article jumps from "BCPL had no malloc" to "all indexing calcs happened at compile time". Dubious -
@cmuratori@grumpygiant@Jonathan_Blow All you need is a function looping over an array that was passed in as a base ptr (e.g. "qsort"). - Show replies
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