From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: The Frotz interpreter - ASM problems!
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 13:06:58 -0800
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Stuart Moore wrote:

> I can't say Z-Machine graphics are especially demanding, can you?

Precisely.  There's no good reason to put assembly routines in a Z
machine interpreter largely written in C.

> Blame Mark Howell and Stefan Jokisch, not me. Believe me, it's
> bizzare.
> Stupid, in fact.

Oh, I was never blaming you.

> By the way - I've remembered the ASM is for byte-swapping now. Any
> help?

Well, there's no reason you can't do "byte-swapping" in C.  In
particular, if it's being used for compensating for little- and
big-endian architectures, then that's a pretty lame reason to use
assembly.

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