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From: gtchen@faline.bellcore.com (George T. Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Assembly Language
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Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 12:53:45 EDT
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In article <> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
>...As for SIZE... I
>estimate that my 5,000 lines of carefully crafted 6502 assembly language,
>could be implemented inmuch less than 1,000 lines of "C" (at an equivalent
>commenting and readability level, of course -- no stacking the deck HERE!).

But I'm sure the actual piece of executable code in orders of magnitude
smaller than the equivalent C program.  Also, I've assumed that since you
did the program in assembly, then it will probably run faster.  For that
matter, any program done in any HLL can be done in assembly and made to
run as fast if not faster.