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From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
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Subject: Re: languages used with commercial software
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Date: 25 Mar 90 21:00:33 GMT
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In article <14615@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) writes:
<       (4)   Coding in assembly is _always_ faster.
<
<I'm not saying it's easier, mind you, but it's faster.  Although I haven't
<mucked with any high level languages for a couple years now, when I was
<taking/teaching a high school pascal course the compiler was unbelievably
<slow.  And the resulting code wasn't all that swift.

        Now if we are talking 'assembly on Apple{//,][}s' then I might
agree with you.  But in general modern compilers are fast, and some
even product faster code.  A compiler is able to view to hole program
a once and can often make much more far reaching optimizations than
most programers.

->Spike
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