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From: Mike Schwartz
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 04:34

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In article <1992Aug2.134310.57771@cc.usu.edu> sl8nl@cc.usu.edu writes:
> >> Besides, Mike, you're an Amiga programmer, right?  C on the Amiga is
> >> much more highly optimized than typical C compilers on the IBM.  The only
> >> compilers that I've been told that do global optimizing (and have for
> >> years) on the IBM is Watcom C and Zortech C...but I can't afford either.
> >>
> >
> > Even though Amiga 'C' compilers claim to be good, I generate 5x better code
> > by hand in assembly!  :)
>
> Well, of course.  That's why the mapper was written in assembly and not, gag,
> Pascal or C.  That would be a major slowdown.

Assembly language is going to make your 50MHz 486 go THAT much faster, too :)

--
Amiga programmer of: GRn, MailMinder, Budokan, Beyond Dark Castle, Dark Castle
Sega Genesis programmer of: Dick Tracy and Marble Madness.
Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
1124 Fremont Ave.
Los Altos, CA 94024

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