And never use a 2500AD compiler.

Sorry that's [OT]A Pet Peeve.

Gordon Couger wrote:
>
> Well written C can come close to assembler if you never use:
> printf, scanf, floating point, or any other hight level function and
> do careful profiling and hand optomize the tight spots with asm.
>
> >One of their reps sold it to a colleague,
> >swearing it beat hand-written assembler.
> >Which is a blatant f***ing lie.
> >Unless he meant hand written by a baboon.
> >It failed to spot simple optimisations,
> >which I had to force-code it to do.
> >Its cheap, even at 99 UKP (= 160 USD)
> >and it has code libraries but its not very smart.
> =========
> I can excuse the salesman greed is an understandable
> emotion but the guy that bought it should be shot so there
> is no danger of him further degrading the gene pool.
>
> Gordon
> ]
> Gordon Couger gcouger@rfdata.net
> 624 Cheyenne
> Stillwater, OK 74075
> 405 624-2855   GMT -6:00

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