From:	"Michael Stewart" <mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Games Programming
Date:	Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:11:32 -0000
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XtReMe wrote in message <920298719 DOT 20902 DOT 0 DOT spot DOT d4ee0fa5 AT news DOT demon DOT nl>...
>>> Ok, count me in also.
>>> Oh, by the way, I'm a VERY experienced C and ASM programmer, and
>>> I HATE allegro (with all though respect... :). Code optimisation and
>>> converting C to ASM is one of the best things I can do. (INCLUDING
>>> fpu, mmx and 3dnow).
>>
>>.. and how long will it be before you are replaced by a compiler?  ;-)
>>--
>>
>
>Long enough for the processor architects to design a new processor
>with new instructions :)  So when the compiler finally compiles 3dnow and
>mmx code, I'm allready writing newer code for newer processors. I got
>to survive in the Bits 'n Bytes Battlefield, so speed is the issue here. I
>don't think 3dnow will ever be implemented in compilers because it's
>incredibly processor-dependant. The only one's that support it now are
>the ones from AMD.
>By the way, compilers are written by men like me, so if we didn't exist,
the
>code produced by the compilers would be awfully slow. If there even exist
>a compiler without us.
>
>XtReMe
>xtreme AT x-project DOT demon DOT nl
>


Thats very big headed of you :-)

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Michael Stewart
mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk
"Just because you're paraniod doesn't mean they aren't after you..."

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