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Article #519Re: Performance - DOS mode contra GUI .
From: Jud McCranie
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:00
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Martin Harvey <martin@pergolesi.demon.co.uk> wrote: >3 lines of pascal should be a lot less assembler than that ... loops and >jumps are not normally expensive provided you write them in such a way >that the branch prediction algorithms in the processor get them right. Going to asm isn't always the answer for speed. For instance, my straight-forward Pascal implementation of GCD is slightly faster than the asm one in the JEDI JCLMath unit. Jud McCranie
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