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From: Fokkema DOT DBRA AT delorie DOT com, 1043730 <dfokkema AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: far pointers again
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:02:51 GMT
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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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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