Subject: Re: ns_cksum.c - why are they duplicated ?
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/06/2000 11:18:49
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:24:14PM -0400, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> One of the local Amiga guys over here wrote an entire spreadsheet in
> m68k assembler about ten years ago...
Yes... but thats because Amiga c compilers used to be either unaffordable
to hobbyists, or bad (sometimes both). Nowadays, there is gcc, which does
a pretty decent job on m68k. You still can become some 30% better, sometimes,
but not for really complex programs :-)
Regards,
-is
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