Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!udel!new
From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: It looks like he's at it again!
Message-ID: <24358@estelle.udel.EDU>
Date: 12 Jul 90 15:18:54 GMT
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Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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In article <9911@celit.fps.com> dave@fps.com (Dave Smith) writes:
>Besides tweaking for speed and messing with things the language is trying
>to do for you (like stack management) I don't know of too many things
>that assembler is really good for.  Any other applications?

Sure.  Any inner-interpreter type of code is easiest in assembler. Things
like Forth threading are harder to do in C than assembler because Forth assumes
is really big on treating addresses as data and vica versa. In addition,
it is usually only 3-6 instructions to do an inner-interpreter step
and the more speed you can get, the better.          -- Darren