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From: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
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Subject: Re: Re: Un-alignment in structures
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 22:55:57 EST
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>> If you have to remove one millisecond from a tight loop that has to run
>> in 50 milliseconds, you really should use assembly.
> 
> If you can possibly do it in assembly then an optimizing compiler that
> generates good code can do it just as fast and you gain portability.

  Can somebody *PROVE* this.  I don't think it's true.  I think a better
statement would be that an optimizing compiler *might* be able to generate
code that is as fast.  (And then again it might not be able to.)

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