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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: BIT Counting: C programming problem
Message-ID: <1972@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 89 19:06:25 GMT
References: <225@tityus.UUCP> <35329@think.UUCP> <8398@dasys1.UUCP> <12571@diamond.BBN.COM>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
Followup-To: comp.lang.c
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In article <12571@diamond.BBN.COM> mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes:
>In comp.lang.c (<8398@dasys1.UUCP>), ejablow@dasys1.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow) 
>writes:
>>[Barry Margolin suggests using a 64K lookup table for something.]
[Barry is at Thinking Machines, builders of the Connection Machine.]
>>
>>That is a ridiculous idea.  For microscopic savings in speed, you
>>waste 63K of space...what if it needs 400K to run effectively, or 
>>even 640K...Besides, more and more people are going to multiprogramming 
>>environments, even on PCs, like Windows or DesqView.  
>
>Anyone else noticed that the "all the world's a VAX" mentality seems to be 
>turning into an "all the world's a PC" mentality?  Positively frightening.

Anyone else notice that Barry could very well assign each number to a
different _computer_ in the initialization...?

				--Blair
				  "Life...is a tree."