Re: Folk Theorem: Assemblers are superior to Compilers

elliottm@csulb.edu (Mike Elliott) writes:
> Folk Theorems:
>[assember code is 1) faster and 2) smaller than compiler code]


All I know is that my favorite word processor (WriteNow for
the Mac) is written in assembly. It's the fastest and
smallest word processor on the Mac that I know of.


Freek
[It occurs to me that a salient point is that PC software is becoming more a
consumer item than a traditional computer product, where cost reduction is
a lot more important than we're accustomed to think. Consider embedded
high volume chips in cars and the like -- they do all sorts of gross assembler
hacks to get the memory size to an absolute minimum and to allow them to use
the slowest, cheapest chip that they can. -John]
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