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From: boemker@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Tim Boemker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portable "asm" (Was: The D Programming Language)
Message-ID: <5080023@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 88 18:30:14 GMT
References: <4257@june.cs.washington.edu>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> To which the obvious reply is speed - functions invocation can be 
> RELATIVELY expensive.  The time taken to invoke a subroutine may
> out way any gains that the asm statement made. Disclaimer - I don't use
> asm - don't plan on it either.

"Relatively": true.  But if a routine is relatively large (powerful), it
is called relatively infrequently.