A present for Steve Hutch

[frktons]

I'd like to express my gratitude to Steve Hutch for giving us
the opportunity to use this space he created, and in which we
can learn, stimulate each other, have fun and tend to evolve
toward better targets.

What present have I in my mind?

I think it could be interesting for all of us to work togheter
for a while, on a free-time and fun bases, and build a new
algorithm for doing some kind of general data crunching:
searching, comparing, sorting, compressing, indexing or any other.

Once we select the target and we start producing small routines
and optimize them, we see what path is suitable and we can
proceed toward the realization of the project.

The copyright of the algorithm will be our gift for Steve Hutch.

My best regards for all.

Frank

[lingo]

"The copyright of the algorithm will be our gift for Steve Hutc"

You should be the first to make a great gift for his birthday (I mean your  Compare two strings algo)
He can use it for faster comparing of strings in his text editors and to learn how to create speed optimized code.... :lol

[frktons]

"The copyright of the algorithm will be our gift for Steve Hutc"

You should be the first to make a great gift for his birthday (I mean your  Compare two strings algo)
He can use it for faster comparing of strings in his text editors and to learn how to create speed optimized code.... :lol

Hi Lingo, unfortunately I am a complete n00b at the moment regarding
Assembly and many other things, but many experienced Asm programmers
are regurarly on this forum, the proposal is essentially for them.  :P

I only have some general ideas, some of them could even be useful  :lol

[Rockoon]

In general, we do not talk about copyrighting algorithms. We talk about patenting them.

Copyright works only for a specific expression, not for a general idea.

[hutch--]

Thanks Frank but the greater wisdom is in getting the performance up and posting it for everyone to use. Then you put your own copyright on it. If I need anything for the masm32 project I ask the author for permission then include it in the next version.

Lingo, I have found so far that the SSE4.2 on my i7 works really badly on anything earlier.  :bg

[Ficko]

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If I need anything for the masm32 project I ask the author for permission then include it in the next version.


"MASM_Programmers_Guide" would be great or you are not talking to MS ? :toothy

[frktons]

In general, we do not talk about copyrighting algorithms. We talk about patenting them.

Copyright works only for a specific expression, not for a general idea.

Thanks Rock, the general idea is to give away the propriety of the algorithm to Hutch,
being it a patent or a copyright probably depends on the country [Europe, USA, Australia, China...].

the greater wisdom is in getting the performance up and posting it for everyone to use.

I'm following that philisophy here, proposing to work togheter [maybe this is the real difference]
and giving away the result, to you, who are a symbol of knowledge sharing [MASM32 for example].

Enjoy

Frank