[wplug] Compiler questions

[Zachary Uram]

but isn't gcc written in assembler and it can make assembler calls
i would love to see performance comparisons

http://www.rdos.net/misc/cversus.htm

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~thayes/phys123/C_vs_assylang_1204.pdf



On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:44:43 -0500, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> Burt E Reany <breany at csc.com> wrote:
> >
> > They used to tell me that about good COBOL, as well - -
> >
> >> I heard  well written C code compiled with architecture specific and
> >> other optimizations has a trivial difference with native assembler
> >> code.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/x86.html
> 
> If you read through that tutorial, I think you'll realize that any compiled
> language is very unlikely to be as optimized as well-written assembly.  The
> article talks about certain optimizations that I simply can't imagine a
> compiler being able to make.
> 
> --
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
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