On 2007-09-07 14:33:42 +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

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> Well, you picked a very specific algorithm amenable to that kind of
> optimization: small, manageable, with a minimal and well-defined
> performance critical section that could be written in assembly. Note
> how a good chunk of the implementation was still in C.

And this is of course exactly the kind of spot where you _would_ use
assembly in the real world. 99.99% of code is better written in C than
assembler, but there is that 0.01% where hand-coded assembler is a
better choice.

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Karl Hasselstr