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From: lacey@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Mark M Lacey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The CPU with 3 brains---486 compatibility with 8008
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Date: 11 Nov 90 18:30:47 GMT
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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:
>the real reason all software today is slow:
>
>>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.)

In what way are they responsible for this?  Are you saying this has
something to do with the C language? (I can't find the original article
anywhere, so it is hard to tell).
>
>So, tell me, Larry, why are programs written in C faster than ones written
>in assembly?

Why do you people find that they must over generalize everything to make
a point?

Do you have proof that ALL programs writting in C are faster than ones
written is assembly?
--
Mark M. Lacey
(lacey@cpsin.cps.msu.edu)