Pointing out that you lack tertiary training isn't exactly a personal attack...
No it probably is not, but coming up with a convincing argument on why I am so wrong to have my opinion would probably be better, instead of saying I must lack experience because I don't share your opinion.
Besides, how would you even know how much training I have had? I admit that I am nothing but a CS student, and that my experience developing a major code bases is limited to a few projects, I done alone and with some friends. (Yeah, it involves a game engine, something all CS students do at some point. A basic web server, a university assignment. A very slow ray tracer, I actually used a singleton in this one for resource management, but that was before I realized there is no real need for them, so shame on me and my double standards)
But according to your profile you're 20, which limits how much seriously real world software development experience you've had yourself (see what I did there?), so who are you to judge my experience?
Anyway, I actually have a question.
I have two different methods for computing a value, one involving extra logical comparisons and one involving extra floating point arithmetic. Funny thing is, on my AMD machine, the extra arithmetic one seems to be performing faster. While on my intel machine the extra comparison based one seems to be performing faster.
It makes me wonder what other parts of my code will perform differently across processors. If there any rule of thumb for what CPU's does what best, or is it random? Does anyone have any experience with it?