henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (05/27/88)
> BTW, I do all my coding in C and ASM. When I have speed problems with a > function in C, I recode it in ASM... There is an alternative: rethink the C function. The current implementation of C News (plug, plug) is an order of magnitude faster than our earliest attempts. It still contains not one line of assembler. We *have* spent a lot of time re-thinking and re-implementing key portions; there are parts of that code that have been redone from scratch three or four times, each time as a result of new insights on how to make things faster. Strategy beats tactics every time, although it's more work. -- "For perfect safety... sit on a fence| Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology and watch the birds." --Wilbur Wright| {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry