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From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
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Subject: Re: Software primitives for real-time programming languages
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Date: 24 Sep 90 08:12:28 GMT
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rajuk@umree.isc.umr.edu (Raju Khubchandani) writes:


>I have read more than I have hands-on experience with programming languages,
>but would anybody disagree that the fastest way to execute is 
>using the assembly level language of any processor? 

How could anyone ? :-)

>level programming. I know this is a lot of programming effort compared to using
>a high level language, but the objective is to extract maximum juice from your
>hardware.

No.
The objective is to produce software that is reliable, maintainable,
readable and meeting its timing connstraints. Note that
`extracting maximum juice' is not a timing constraint. 

>Raju

-alex

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