Re: Cheers for GoGo.

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 
> Excuse the sarcastic tone, but what the hell are you writing that requires
> such a degree of streamlining? OS internals?
> 
> Bear in mind that streamlining at the asm stage is the final stage of the
> process. It requires the most amount of physical work and gains the least
> amount of speedup.
> 
> A.D.

Well, gogo is at least 40 to 50% faster than lame on my machine (which it is 
based on), probably down to a mix of the assembler and the MMX instructions. 
I don't know if you remember a program called Fastcad for DOS...it was the 
fasted CAD I'd ever seen running on a 286, mostly because it was 100% 
assembler. You could *really* tell the difference.

As far as what I'd code? Dunno - its been about 4 years since I last touched 
80x86 assembly, so I'm going to be a bit rusty to start with...I'm mostly an 
experimental coder, so I'll play with what I want. Personally, I have no 
problems with assembly, but that could be due to the Speccy, CBM Pet and BBC 
I used to have and code on (so it's not a sea-change for me). Curiously 
enough as well, you still do a lot of assembler in engineering fields (which 
I have done), with Z80's and 68000's being used as embedded controllers.

Chris...


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