>> We regularily win with compiled C against hand written assembler. The
>> difference is the compiler doesn't foprget a programmers trick.
>>
>> Walter Banks
>Yes, but after looking at your output and remembering the trick I can
>write assembler code that will at least tie it and probably beat it.
>(After all, I know more info than the compiler.)
>

Never ending C vs. assembler battle... Despite of all the counter-examples
anyone has or will post, I agree with following text (found at the Fast
Forward Engineering answer page)

5a. An excellent C compiler can generate better code than an excellent
assembly-language programmer, because the compiler can safely generate
incomprehensible, non-maintainable, "brittle" code that the programmer
wouldn't dare write.

5b. An excellent assembly-language programmer can write better code than an
excellent C compiler, because the programmer can see a much larger picture
of the problem than the compiler can.

And maybe one more point - if any of the two languages was better in all
cases, then how would you explain, that the other one still survives ?

Regards

Josef