Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!rmi!shimoda
From: shimoda@rmi.UUCP (Markus Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bryce's new job ...
Message-ID: <933@rmi.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 88 19:20:33 GMT
References: <25233@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: shimoda@rmi.UUCP (Markus Schmidt)
Organization: RMI Net, Aachen, W.Germany
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Keywords: smaller, tighter, faster ... do in in assembly!

In article <25233@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
: 
: [ "Nicaragua" is Spanish for "Vietnam."   --Bob Page ]
: 
: It just dawned on me [well, it *is* 5:00 AM] ... someone recently said (when
: refering to the possibility that CBM might incorporate the ARP stuff in a
: future rev of AmigaDOS [or was it ARexx ?]), that they (CBM) were "scared to
: death" or assembly language.
: 
: While I doubt that the good people at CBM are "scared to death" of asssembly,
: it is interesting to note that assembly is Bryce's speciality!
: 
: Hmmmmmmmm ....?
: 
: 
: Anyway, whatever he'll be up to ... Congratulations to Bryce, and to CBM!
: 
: /kim
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Hi!

I hate assembler too & if you really do C right you don't need
assembler too often. 
Dunno if someone has tried Leo Schwab's NEETO.ASM. It was pure
assembly and had 340 Bytes. I tried to do the same in C and did
it with 348 Bytes.
Or I have written a filebrowser that \is 
*entirely* "C" and scrolls nearly as fast as BLITZ.  If you say
Assemby is 100%  (code and speed) good "C" can be 120% (20%
slower and bigger) and 50% delvelopmenttime.

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