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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need to optimize 8086 C code for si
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Date: 13 Feb 88 15:05:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Feb 13 09:05:00 1988


>I have a friend who is doing some development work for the 8086 PC market.
>He needs to optimize for size, since the 640K limit is posing some almost
>insurmountable problems.
>
The answer to this problem is obvious: Throw out you C compilers and use
assembly language. Hire a hacker who used to program 4kB game machines.
This will work wonders on your code size. Please tell me if you use
my advice so I can go out and buy more stock in headache-remedy companies :-).