Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!ptimtc!nntp-server.caltech.edu!toddpw
From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HLLs vs. Assembly
Keywords: C, Compiler, Assembly Language
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.195302.13579@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 19:53:02 GMT
References: <bu.edu!polygen!jerry@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU> <9104041653.AB15986@apple.com> <10505@pitt.UUCP>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Lines: 15

I don't have a specific point to prove, just a comment:

reanor@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Jeffrey Getzin) writes:

> All of these optimizations are very easy conceptually, but are simply
>beyond the boredom-thresholds of most programmers.

Maybe this is because they don't know how to write efficient code in
the first place. Good assembly prorammers often write pre-optimized
code where it counts, and usually the optimizations are impractical
for the compiler but garner that extra size/speed edge that justified
using assembly in the first place.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu