Comments for Taylor Design https://www.taylordesign.net Software Development Sat, 06 Aug 2022 15:21:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 Comment on Saving Humanity (By Vectorizing The ALU) by Plagiarizing Save Humanity | Taylor Design https://www.taylordesign.net/code-optimization/saving-humanity/#comment-57 Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:48:29 +0000 http://www.taylordesign.net/?p=4469#comment-57 […] When I logged in tonight I discovered that one Shehan Jayalath had taken my B8 solution from Saving Humanity (By Vectorizing The ALU), stripped the header, and posted it in the challenge discussion as if it was his own. Sure enough, […]

]]> Comment on Of Bits & Strings by Daniel L. Taylor https://www.taylordesign.net/code-optimization/of-bits-and-strings/#comment-53 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:51:54 +0000 http://www.taylordesign.net/?p=4066#comment-53 In reply to Cordelia Jarvis.

I don’t have a high traffic blog by any means. But as I mentioned in this blog post, nobody really noticed the almost identical C solution I found in the forums. I think you hit the nail on the head when you said “…nobody else appreciates this stuff.” Most programmers today are not familiar with what’s actually going on within the CPU. They don’t drop down to C to optimize performance critical code. I think modern software suffers for this.

]]> Comment on Of Bits & Strings by Cordelia Jarvis https://www.taylordesign.net/code-optimization/of-bits-and-strings/#comment-52 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:27:52 +0000 http://www.taylordesign.net/?p=4066#comment-52 Ok… nobody has commented on this? I’d like to say that was a “clever” way of handling the problem. I’m a bit twiddler and perform lots of system level bit transformations on data…so it seemed like a logical path to me. Of course understanding the architecture of your system (ok…most everything is 64-bit these days) and optimizing your solution for it was smart. Maybe nobody else appreciates this stuff. We had a long standing solution in our office that took about .2 seconds to run — However, we found ourselves using this operation 50,000 times in succession. Now we are at 10,000 seconds. Last I checked…there’s only 60 in minute. Results took HOURS. I optimized our algorithm (via a lower level language “C”) and got the single response time down to .001 seconds. This allowed us to finish the workload (50,000 calls) in less than 1 minute. Indeed it can pay to be closer to the machine.

]]> Comment on Restoring a Classic: The 1 GHz Titanium PowerBook G4 by Andre https://www.taylordesign.net/classic-macintosh/restoring-a-classic-the-1-ghz-titanium-powerbook-g4/#comment-51 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 03:45:47 +0000 http://www.taylordesign.net/?p=1101#comment-51 I picked one (I hope), specs didn’t match the pictures, but it looks like its the 15 inch Ti Book 1 GHz model. Always wanted one to play with earlier versions of OS X and even Mac OS 9 since its lineage goes back to the original System release from 1984. Have a lot of apps like Office 98, Office X, Photoshop 7 and more I want to install on it.

]]> Comment on The Mythical Road Apple by A Response To The Mythical Road Apple | Taylor Design https://www.taylordesign.net/classic-macintosh/the-mythical-road-apple/#comment-7 Sat, 05 Nov 2016 23:39:57 +0000 http://www.taylordesign.net/?p=403#comment-7 […] replied to my post The Mythical Road Apple. Apparently he found my post while trying to find out who had edited the Wikipedia page about the […]

]]> Comment on Restoring a Classic: The Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS by A Response To The Mythical Road Apple | Taylor Design https://www.taylordesign.net/classic-macintosh/restoring-a-classic-the-power-macintosh-610066-dos/#comment-6 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:23:21 +0000 http://www.taylordesign.net/?p=1099#comment-6 […] other old Macs I have both a fully restored 6300 and a fully restored 6100/66 DOS with the 256K L2 cache card. The Power Mac 6100 has a 64-bit path to main memory and extensive […]

]]> Comment on Restoring a Classic: The Macintosh Performa 6300CD by Restoring a Classic: The Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS | Taylor Design https://www.taylordesign.net/classic-macintosh/restoring-a-classic-the-macintosh-performa-6300cd/#comment-4 Tue, 10 May 2016 23:44:28 +0000 http://www.taylordesign.net/?p=757#comment-4 […] took the 16MB DIMM leftover from my 6300CD upgrade and installed it in the DOS […]

]]> Comment on The Mythical Road Apple by Restoring a Classic: The Macintosh Performa 6300CD | Taylor Design https://www.taylordesign.net/classic-macintosh/the-mythical-road-apple/#comment-3 Mon, 02 May 2016 15:49:50 +0000 http://www.taylordesign.net/?p=403#comment-3 […] the middle of researching my article on Apple’s x200 series of Power Macintosh and Performa computers something dawned on me: I never sold my old Performa 6300CD. I gave it to my mom. She used it to […]

]]> Comment on The Mythical Road Apple by Classic Macintosh Series | Taylor Design https://www.taylordesign.net/classic-macintosh/the-mythical-road-apple/#comment-2 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 08:17:52 +0000 http://www.taylordesign.net/?p=403#comment-2 […] I wrote the rebuttal. I also restored a Mac I thought had been lost to time. Found a Mac at a recycling center nearly identical to one I spent hours working on. Hunted for abandoned Macs at local garage sales. And purchased Macs off eBay I that I remember wanting back when they were new. […]

]]> Comment on TextSpresso by Welcome to TaylorDesign.net | Taylor Design https://www.taylordesign.net/products/textspresso/#comment-1 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 07:52:51 +0000 http://taylordesign.net/?page_id=240#comment-1 […] TextSpresso […]

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