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From: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ (Ian Dall)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: It looks like he's at it again!
Message-ID: <784@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ>
Date: 24 Jul 90 21:14:55 GMT
References: <1990Jul12.012730.4248@Stardent.COM> <64044@sgi.sgi.com> <13392@cbmvax.commodore.com> <_YV4Y9A@ggpc2.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: ian@sibyl.OZ (Ian Dall)
Organization: Engineering, Uni of Adelaide, Australia
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In article <_YV4Y9A@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
}In article <13392@cbmvax.commodore.com>, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
}> WordPerfect is 100% written in assembler for speed.
}
}What does it need that speed for? Like all editors, it's almost 100% I/O
}bound on the user inetrface.

I don't want to comment on word perfect particularly, but there is a
difficulty in benchmarking any interactive software. On the *average*
it spends almost all its time waiting for IO, but when you hit the
key, any delay is *very* noticable.



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Ian Dall     life (n). A sexually transmitted disease which afflicts
                       some people more severely than others.