Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/10/07/06:22:50
Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
: Instruction counts is not the whole story. You need to measure the
: effect of this is a real-life program. Experience shows that the
: effect is negligible to non-existent.
I think you're right if you time all that in a real program, because it are
just a few instructions in thousands. But as an asm programmer, it looks to
me it's not that hard to implement efficient code given a portion of c code.
You are right that this does not really affect the speed of a program, but
it is harder to code. But I will come back to this.
: This is free software we are talking about. With free software, there
: are two ways of getting things done *your* way:
: (a) Do it yourself. After all, since you are annoyed by the
: absence of the feature, who's better than you to make it happen?
: (b) Pay someone to do it. Since the compiler sources are freely
: available, you need only to find a programmer willing to do the
: job. For a sufficient amount of money, I bet that all the GCC
: development team will be lining up ;-).
Again, you are right. Maybe I'll download the source and try it myself, but
maybe it is not necessary anymore.
Thanx, David
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