From: "M Bailey" <mark AT shire DOT globalnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: which is the fastest way to clear the screen i mode13h?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:21:34 -0000
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bowman wrote in message <36637D50 DOT DBC445CE AT montana DOT com>...
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>Shred wrote:
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>> Is clrscr() faster than a reasonably weel written assembly routine?
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>No. It certainly is faster to use than writing an assembler routine,
>however.

Why is it faster than hand-coded assembly ?  Especially if you make
optimizations for the Pentium ?