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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HLLs vs. Assembly
Message-ID: <15709@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 4 Apr 91 18:21:29 GMT
References: <13202@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <15682@smoke.brl.mil> <13275@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <13275@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@koufax.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>>Thus, system overhead, at least on our UNIX systems, is close to negligible...
>How did you come up with this?  Have you actually rewritten the kernel in
>assembly and compared the difference?

NO, but the opposite conversion occurred and was reported in the literature
which you apparently don't read.

>... don't need boat anchors like UNIX slowing us down!

I feel sorry for your students.