On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Pierce Nichols wrote:

> 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
>
Perhaps better than *you* could hand-code. ;-)  However, given infinite
amounts of time, an intelligent engineer with a data manual can ALWAYS
beat a compiler.  The engineer simply has more information.

--Alan
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