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From: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Writing High-Level code (was Re: The Next Amiga)
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Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 14:40:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 27 14:40:34 1987
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The question was: what percentage of code is C and what percentage is
assembly language in commercial products?

My product, which will be released in a few weeks, consists of about 40,000
lines of code, of which only two routines (ammounting to about 500 lines)
are written in assembly language.

As far as thinking about the underlying machine structure when writing
code goes, about the only thing I worry about is how many register
variables are actually used by the compiler.  I've found that besides
register vars and writing reasonable code to start with, not much is
to be gained by looking at the compiler output...

	Gary