Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!crash!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Assembly for graphics
Summary: It's that time of the month again
Keywords: when i have to say
Message-ID: <3013@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 88 23:47:07 GMT
References: <2734@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <2734@crash.cts.com> steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Jim Howard) writes:
>
>In most cases assembly will produce MUCH smaller executables, and if the
>programmer is good enough, MUCH faster executables too. 
> 

Ok, now LISTEN this time.

"If the programmer knows their compiler, knows their machine, and knows what
they are doing, the speed penalty for using C is very small".

Ask Leo about plotting pixels.



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