On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 05:53:22AM +0100, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:00:57 -0500, Allen wrote:
A myth usually shown false with a little assembler.
Not all assembler code is faster then what a good optimizing compiler does. Even assembler wizards like Michael Abrash have been telling that for quite a long time. In most cases, the win from using assembler is so minimal that it's just not worth the effort.
Philipp
What you do the small speed boost may not matter, but in the 80s my teacher was writing code for the 68K processor and you couldn't use C for that. -Allen
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