On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Bob Ammerman wrote:

> At the risk of starting a flame war...
>
> Real (wo)men code in assembly (or if they are extra tough, binary) :-)
>
>
> Just kidding of course. Both asm and "C" have their place. For typical
> applications "C" is fine, but when you are trying to get the most possible
> function out of the least possible hardware, you can't beat asm. (see my sig
> line to figure out where I prefer to be).

True. If you need a slow sine, then fine. If you need a fast one then Eric's
6-cycle one can not be beat by any C-compiler (except those that support in-line
assembly).

Scott

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