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From: dvlmfs@cs.umu.se (Michael Forselius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 5 Nov 90 09:59:30 GMT
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In article <F.*m?7$2@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
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>In article <90308.005234KJSTEELE@MTUS5.BITNET> <KJSTEELE@MTUS5.BITNET> writes:
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> [... blah blah]
>On another thread, is System 7.0 being written in assembler?  If so,
>Apple is not going to have an easy time moving to other
>high-performance architectures.

????????
The ONLY way to go is assembler, why do you think the current systems are
slow huh? If 7.0 was to be written in assembler then it would be half the
size and twice the speed (if there are any REAL programmers still working for
Apple). And remember that no compiler NEVER generates code as efficient as
hand-optimized assembler. I guess that the release date of 7.0 is delayed
due to OOP...  It's a nice concept but not the way to go.
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>-Mike