Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Array indexing vs. pointers... Message-ID: <1988Oct9.223338.26518@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <225800077@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <208@obie.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 88 22:33:38 GMT For further reading on optimizing C code, you might want to read that absolute gem of technical writing, "News Need Not Be Slow", by Collyer and Spencer, in the proceedings of the Winter 1987 Usenix Conference. (No, we don't get royalties on proceedings sales!) We speeded up a major program by about a factor of 20, without sacrificing portability (no assembler involved). -- The meek can have the Earth; | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology the rest of us have other plans.|uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu