In message <73245390544AD11194940000F8D82F65982747@XG>, John Bellini
<JBellini@STATPOWER.COM> writes
>I have to put my two bits worth in on this one.
>
>I have to agree with Andy in that C has its place and Assembly has its
>place.  The good coder knows when to use the right one and or both.

Every language has it's place, but assembler is the most efficient for
'running', but probably not for 'writing' :-).

For an example take computer games, most (if not all) Amiga games were
written in assembler, they ran fast on a 68000 at under 8MHz with 512kB
RAM using a single floppy drive. Now look at modern PC games, usually
written in 'C', often requiring a 200MHz+ Pentium, 32mB RAM, 300mB hard
drive space, and still don't run as smooth :-).

For those who remember the Amiga, much of the operating system was
written in 'C', but in later years there was a group who rewrote it in
assembler, this provided a huge speed increase from the operating system
routines. Games almost always totally bypassed the Amiga operating
system, and provided their own interfaces.
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Nigel.

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