[MacPerl] The Powers of Annoy

[miku <miku@onlinehome.de>]

Title: [MacPerl] The Powers of Annoy

>I'm an engineering manager responsible for introducing
>new products. The products I focus on are primarily for
>use in automotive electronics (no G4s in these yet).
>Motorola is a huge company - sometimes it seems like many
>companies from the inside... what I'm getting at is that
>I have very few contacts with the folks who develop the
>G3/G4 (even fewer in the tools group), but I do have a few
>friends over there, so I'll see what I can dig up.

>Motorola owns Metrowerks now:

>  http://macweek.zdnet.com/1999/08/15/motometro.html

>This seems like the best place to start. I'll get back at
>you if I can dig anything up... I've been meaning to
>explore this avenue for my own interests anyway... Do you
>really want to be able to program at the assembly level on
>a G3/G4? These days assembly is usually reserved for folks
>working on hardware drivers that must be very, very
>efficient. The pipelined RISC architecture makes this an
>arena unsuitable for the feint of heart and skill. Me, I
>hope I never see G3 assembly code!

>jay


Thanks for the words on your job and for the link. Unfortunately, the metrowerks server seems to be down or badly configured at the moment, i. e. I get an immediate "server error" every time I try to connect. On the G4: Yet I don't know how much skill or determination it would require to program this new RISC chip, but I'm *so* curious. And of course, the next chip architecture will render assembly efforts halfway obsolete  before one can say "Upps". But (maybe I'm a little weird) I think it would be really fun to develop assembly code for these processors. I wonder how fast a pure-assembly implementation of mp3 encoding could be, for instance (apart from the legal issues). But maybe you're right, and it would take more time than I am willing to invest. Anyway, I would like to have a go at it. So if you can dig it up, a great thank you to you!

Michael