🚀 go-pugleaf

>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.


Actually, Borland C++ version 3.1 does global optimizing, but I don't think
it does it well enough to do what you are talking about.  I've been working
on some perspective mapping stuff as well.  Assuming that the screen is
half filled with mapped images at any given moment, I started off with only
4 frames per second using nothing but pure C with all optimizations.  After
a little inline assembly, it's now up to 23 frames per second and still
rising.  I guess I'm somewhere between the extremes of those that don't
want to see the assembly code produced by the compiler and those that find
it a sin to not write everything in assembly, even if part of the code
doesn't even show up on a profile at all.

-Gary McTaggart