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From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris Keesan)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: C "optimization" (6 of 8)
Message-ID: <587@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 18:03:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 16 18:03:53 1984
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    This particular example is fatuous.  You complain about the  C compiler
emitting unnecessary assembler pseudo-ops and labels, because they "slow the
assembler down", and "on a loaded system, every little bit helps."  This is
totally silly.  The extra code and processing in the C compiler to eliminate
extra lines of assembler code are likely to put as much of a load on a system
as the extra processing in the assembler.
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					Morris M. Keesan
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