Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!cdshaw
From: cdshaw@alberta.UUCP (Chris Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Assembler Bogosity
Summary: Speed vs. Portability
Keywords: dead horse
Message-ID: <1500@pembina.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 03:17:40 GMT
Reply-To: cdshaw@pembina.UUCP (Chris Shaw)
Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Lines: 11

Code written in assembly can be fast.
Conventions and self-discipline are needed to make it manageable.
Assembly is by definition not portable to other architectures.

It's a trade-off.

Can we shut up about this topic now?
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Chris Shaw    cdshaw@alberta.UUCP (via watmath, ihnp4 or ubc-vision)
University of Alberta
CatchPhrase: Bogus as HELL !