Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!telly!problem!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: The CPU with 3 brains---486 compatibility with 8008
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 12:32:11 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.123211.19444@druid.uucp>
References: <1990Nov6.223738.13265@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <9333@b11.ingr.com> <8658@scolex.sco.COM>

In article <8658@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
> [responding to claims that assembler is faster than C]
>So, tell me, Larry, why are programs written in C faster than ones written
>in assembly?
>
It is understandable why some people might think that assembler is necessarily
faster than C but this discussion reminds me of the idiot who once told me
that the new version of NewWord (a Wordstar clone) was faster than the old
one because the old one was written in C and the new one in compiled BASIC.
I assumed he meant the other way around but no amount of cross examining
could get him to reverse the statement.  Later this same person told me that
there was something wrong with my implementation of XModem because it didn't
work with his BASIC implementation.  Somehow I couldn't get exited about it.

BTW I'm sure NewWord was never written in BASIC anyway let alone a later
version but I may be wrong.

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