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Re: Goodbye IFI?

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
You also have to come up with extremely complex algorithms to have any optimised code currently, and it's not exactly easy to teach students Calc.-3/Linear Algebra concepts to a high school student who hasn't been through Algebra 2.
Did I miss some new compilier developments in the last few years? Are they now parsing symbolic math into algorithms for us? Or automatically modelling our systems and designing control for them? I mean, really. The whole point of optimization is that you're, well, optimizing. A faster processor doesn't equate to instant optimization.
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