Re: Optimizing in assembly language

Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com>
8 Mar 2001 12:30:51 -0500

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From: Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 8 Mar 2001 12:30:51 -0500
Organization: Houston Area League of PC Users, Inc.
References: 01-03-006
Keywords: assembler, optimize
Posted-Date: 08 Mar 2001 12:30:51 EST

Randall Hyde <rhyde@transdimension.com> wrote:
> So here's my question: why can't we write an "optimizing assembler"
> that lets the programmer specify machine sequences and the assembler
> does the same kinds of "book keeping" that a HLL compiler would do.


Microware's 6809 assembler for OS-9 in the early 80's could run a
peephole optimizer on the input file. It didn't work all that well,
though, and reduced the size of the code, in my dimly-remembered
experience, more than the run time.


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