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From: maniac@howlin.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Assembler (Re: What's Wrong with ARP!!!!)
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Date: 25 Nov 90 21:08:50 GMT
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In article <CEDMAN.90Nov21183628@lynx.ps.uci.edu>, cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
) 
) And assembler has at least a chance of being better than ANY
) high-level language.
) 
)         Carl Edman
) 
) 

	I couldn't agree more!  I`m working on a resident
notepad/free-form-database, that since it stays in memory,
has to be pretty small.  I started programming it in C, using
as much native-amiga library calls as possible to keep the 
size of the code down.  at 25K, it was just managing the 
dynamic string algorithms I use, opening windows, and
displaying text in the windows.  I decided to recode the
program in Assembly, and it dropped to 14K, and is almost
fully functional.

-- 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@jimi.cs.unlv.edu