Re: Peter Dannegger's brilliant assessment.

Peter,

I couldn't agree more.

I find that the deliniation between good and mundane assembly language is the programer's use of data structures.

Using data structures opens up the first gateway to assembly language efficiencies.

Years later when I forced myself to learn object oriented C++, I was shocked to see that most of the concepts looked more like things I've done in assembly language. I just wish object oriented programming didn't try to rename all their concepts - it made it hard on we that were raised in the structured programming school. :)


Your comments on division algorithms bring a smile but that's a topic I can't comment upon due to market niche. I can see you know the better direction to proceed.

I will say that I used an excel spreadsheet to model my algorithm enhancement. And there is a non-obvious, tiny twist in the algorithm that greatly tightens the accuracy. This is important in my business wherein we have to be cautious to accumulating error. Luckily my competitor doesn't have a clue.

-Jay C. Box