Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!decwrl!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: DICE Message-ID: Date: 1 Jun 90 20:53:02 GMT References: <9005290344.AA10362@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> Sender: news@decwrl.dec.com Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 30 In-reply-to: dillon@overload.UUCP's message of 31 May 90 00:24:58 GMT In article dillon@overload.UUCP (Matthew Dillon) writes: DICE does not have registerized parameters or inline library calls. Frankly, anybody who appreciates such options also knows that simply optimizing one or two of his core routines will get better results anyway and these so called features only make the code less portable and more unreadable :-). What - you expect us to do _all_ the work? :-) Seriously, I find the registerized parameters/inline library call in Lattice usefull; the first program I cut over to them picked up about 20% (not bad for just upgrading the program to the new compiler). The only portability hit is having to provide/disable prototypes for functions that want registerized parameters. Since I like prototypes anyway, that's no big deal. More importantly, done right, they makes doing shared libraries somewhat saner. So, do you have any plans to add them to DICE? Second question: Support for things other than the 68000? You didn't mention it. Is it there? Thanx,