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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: CRCs
Message-ID: <16004@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 30 Apr 91 15:19:36 GMT
References: <8866@crash.cts.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <8866@crash.cts.com> psonnek@pro-mansion.cts.com (Patrick Sonnek) writes:
-In-Reply-To: message from gwyn@smoke.brl.mil
->That's true, but even well-written assembly code is unlikely to be of
->much value for porting purposes, while some truly horrible C code has
->been ported all around the place.
-This is a good thing?!?  As has been stated before by someone else (Forgive
-me, I've forgotten who.)  I don't care if it's portable, I want the
-application to run on MY computer FAST!

If it's not portable, odds are it won't run on your computer at all!

If an application runs well enough, you should be happy, rather than
pointlessly wish that it ran faster.