We regularily win with compiled C against hand written assembler. The
difference is the compiler doesn't foprget a programmers trick.

Walter Banks

>
> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Alan G. Smith wrote:
>
> > You can't expect a C compiler to do as well as you do in Assembler
because you
> >  know a lot of stuff
> > the compiler
> > doesn't.
>
>         Actually, on yr computer, gcc in optimize mode will compile
> somewhat better asm code than you could hand-code.
>
>         Pierce Nichols
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