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From: lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay)
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Subject: Re: Compiler Costs
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Date: 6 Jul 90 19:01:06 GMT
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In article <1797@apctrc.UUCP> zrra07@backus (Randall R. Appleton) writes:
>... if I take my average well written program, compiled
>with a good optimizing compiler, and re-write it in assembler, what sort
>of speedup should I expect to see?

The speedup will vary.  A lot. There are rare examples where
well-written assembler code was slower.

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Don		D.C.Lindsay