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Subject: Re: Assembler vs C - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 04:31:15 EST
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zinfandel!berry    Apr 23 16:15:00 1984

In the four or so years I  have been working with C and UNIX, I have written
2 (count 'em, two) assembler routines.  Both were to wring the most out
of the innermost loop after profiling.  One was in fact, merely a version
of strcmp that didn't save any registers, and used some volatile ones
instead of the ones the C compiler picked.  That got an extra 12% speedup from
a cross-loader.

Berry Kercheval		Zehntel Inc.	(ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry)
(415)932-6900