From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: The Frotz interpreter - ASM problems!
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 11:51:21 -0800
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Stuart Moore wrote:

> Excellent question. Interpreting the Z-Machine's not >that< demanding
> on
> PC power, is it?

One need only resort to assembly in _extreme_ cases, say, where 90% of
the CPU power is being expended in a tiny section of very essential
code, say for a graphics engine -- but even then it's often not
_required_, it will just speed things up.

I am puzzled to understand why someone would use assembly in a Z machine
interpreter, unless they simply already had a chunk of assembly code to
do something that they didn't know how to do in C.  Even then it seems
like a bizarre reason to put the dependency on assembly in there.

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