Sunday, November 17, 2002

My good friend John Burkhardt has some good push-back on Joel's latest well-done essay: The Law of Leaky Abstractions.  "While I agree with a lot of it, I'm not sure I buy the idea that because an abstraction might have a performance penalty in some cases, its a leaky abstraction.  And there certainly are some that seem well cemented by now.  For example, how much .asm have you written in the past 5 years?   And I don't know anyone who can hand code floating point Pentium assembler better than the compiler.  We tried to be sure, but couldn't do any better.. And I hear VS C++ is about to get even better." 11:20:19 AM