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Subject: Too slow?
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Date: Tue, 20-Sep-83 11:19:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 20 11:19:41 1983
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Re: "UCSD P-system is too slow for many applications"

A system with a resident assembler is never too slow, unless the host
machine itself is too slow.  In a typical program, 90 per cent of
the execution time is spent in 10 per cent of the code, so that a
significant speedup is possible by recoding only a few critical routines
in assembly language.

				Dave Seaman
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