Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!keesan 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 Article-I.D.: bbncca.587 Posted: Thu Feb 16 18:03:53 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 05:07:43 EST References: <208@mi-cec.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 11 ----------------------------- 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. -- Morris M. Keesan {decvax,linus,wjh12,ima}!bbncca!keesan keesan @ BBN-UNIX.ARPA