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From: jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: C vs. assembler [was 3-headed CPUs]
Message-ID: <13218@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 11 Nov 90 16:38:35 GMT
References: <1990Nov4.014901.23819@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Nov6.223738.13265@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <9333@b11.ingr.com> <8658@scolex.sco.COM>
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In article <8658@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
>In article <9333@b11.ingr.com> lhughes@b11.ingr.com (Lawrence Hughes) writes:
>>Welcome to the wonderful world of multi-megabyte executables that barely fit
>>in 2 MB systems, barely crawl on 25 MHz CPUs and won't even run on any known
>>diskette system. Compliments of brothers Kernigan and Ritchie.
>(It's Kernighan, btw.)
>
>So, tell me, Larry, why are programs written in C faster than ones written
>in assembly?

Ah, I love it. Answer one gross generalization with another.

I don't know, Sean. Why are they?

-- Jerry Callen
   jcallen@encore.com