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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: C vs. Assembly
Message-ID: <4917@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 12 Jan 90 06:44:46 GMT
References: <1125@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <1125@crash.cts.com> doc@crash.cts.com (Mitch Evans) writes:
>	I have been hacking away in Assembly, seeing what I can do with it.
>If there is any way to write the sucker in C, I would prefer that -- as it
>is easier.  BUT, I will write it in assembly if need be.  

This has already been well answered, but to speak in general about C versus
assembly, remember from your operating systems class that 5% of
the code is typically responsible for 95% of the execution time.
A decent profiler (like the Tom Rockiki (sp?) one that comes with Manx)
will identify those portions to you, so you can have the higher lines-of-
debugged-code-per-day of C and the performance of assembly where it counts,
if needed.
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