On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, myke predko wrote:
> I've just received the April 1996 issue of "Nuts & Volts" and the first
> article is Scott Edward's "Stamp Applicatoins".  The start of the article
> discusses a speed problem with an application and then goes on to discuss
> ways around speed problems other than being a genius with Assembler and that
> is to use a compiler to create the code.
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> But, I would have expected an *astoundlying* improvement in the loop.  Scott
> says "compiled code is rarely as efficient as code written by a crafty
> assembly-language programmer".  But, I would have expected significantly
> better performance from the Compiler.
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> Myke

Don't get N&V in Australia in a hurry Myke. What Compiler is Scott using
for these speed comparisons?

Don...

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