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Article #3260Re: Microsoft Assembler Complaints
From: John D. Mitchell
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 1990 04:00
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 1990 04:00
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In article <OTTO.90Dec2080958@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: >In article <9385@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c164-bd@katerina.uucp (John D. Mitchell) writes: > Oh yeah, any word about whether they are finally going to write the > assembler in assembly language (instead of C)? >Should it make any difference ? The fact that it's slow doesn't have very >much to do with what language it's done in. You can make assembler slower >than molasses in frozen-over hell. Of course, my comment comes more from a desire to question M-soft's thinking than anything else. Everything I have ever seen by them is large and slow. Yes, there's plenty I haven't seen. Speed IS an issue to many people. Look at how well Borland's done. You're absolutely correct (if I am inferring correctly) that proper design (algorithms, data structures, etc.) make a much larger impact then language choice (where the languages are roughly comparable). If they can produce an assembler that's as fast as the current version of TASM and is as easy to use then I'll check it out. No more quirky bugs, inconsistent macros, etc. (Good luck! :-) Thanks, John D. Mitchell johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cordelia!c164-bd From: c164-bd@cordelia.uucp (John D. Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Microsoft Assembler Complaints Message-ID: <9393@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 3 Dec 90 04:00:48 GMT References: <9078@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Nov20.141330.13358@polyof.poly.edu> <9109@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <59413@microsoft.UUCP> <9385@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <OTTO.90Dec2080958@tukki.jyu.fi> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: c164-bd@cordelia.UUCP (John D. Mitchell) Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23