Re: PPIG discuss: Loop Bounds and Errors

2006-01-31 Thread William Billingsley
Frank Wales wrote: On 01/31/2006 02:37 PM, Howie Goodell wrote: The test ilimit fails where 16-bit math or huge loops hit the signed-arithmetic threshold. Using unsigned arithmetic only buys you another power of 2. The safe approach is to say, limit-i1. Oh, sure. I just didn't want to

Re: PPIG discuss: Documentation for large systems

2007-11-06 Thread William Billingsley
Ruven, I'm a man with a hammer, so I'm interested in finding out whether your problem might be a nail... From the issue you've described (it's difficult to know where to start and what to read), it sounds like the shortage is not in the detailed documentation per se, but in an

Re: PPIG discuss: Documentation for large systems

2007-11-07 Thread William Billingsley
So theoretically, 20% of the team have just gone through this learning process. What did they misunderstand? What questions were they asking their mentors and why. Ask if you can read the notes they made, and interview them about those notes -- which bits actually turned out to be

Re: PPIG discuss: Programmer education ain't what it used to be

2008-01-15 Thread William Billingsley
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