On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:23:51AM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > copies be killed ? Probably even the VAX one, the compiler
> > does probably better job in optimizing the code than
> > hand crafted assembly.
> > 
> ``No''. 
> VAX ns_cksum.c is 3 to 10 times faster than the C one (that can't make use
> of the way some insn's work). Please leave it alone.

I thought that people routinely wrote assembly that was better than
a compiler's code on old processors like the VAX, but that a compiler
is better on a RISC (or similarly complex) architecture?

One of the local Amiga guys over here wrote an entire spreadsheet in
m68k assembler about ten years ago...
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