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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: fast code and no morals
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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 15:40:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 28 15:40:47 1986
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Guess what.  I just compiled this into 68000 assembler.  Now, I haven't
ever had to program in this particular assembler, but assembler is 
assembler -- even I could optimise the hell out of it.  God knows what
John Gilmore could do with it!  If you really want fast as hell, this is
the way to go.  If you want portable code, write portably.  But why on
earth do you want something which is not as fast as you could make it
with a half hours extra work *and* not portable and a bitch to maintain?

-- 
Laura Creighton		
sun!hoptoad!laura		(note new address!  l5 will still
ihnp4!hoptoad!laura		 work for a while....)
hoptoad!laura@lll-crg.arpa