Re: High Level Language vs Assembly

"Tom Shackell" <ts3@ukc.ac.uk>
14 Mar 2001 00:06:21 -0500

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From: "Tom Shackell" <ts3@ukc.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 14 Mar 2001 00:06:21 -0500
Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury
References: 01-02-094 01-02-101 01-03-015 01-03-036 01-03-049
Keywords: assembler
Posted-Date: 14 Mar 2001 00:06:21 EST

All the replies to my post are along the same lines so I'll answer
them all at once :)


My argument was that Assembly language is better than a HLL sometimes,
and hence I only have to prove this is so in at least one case. I am
not saying that online code does not have its place, just that it is
not a replacement for hand-coded ASM in certain cases. Many of the
other optimizations that people have suggested in a software graphics
engine give some performance benefits but do not compare with ASM
coding the inner loop of the rasterizer.


Tom Shackell


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