From: Stuart Moore <stuart_moore AT my-dejanews DOT com>
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Subject: Re: The Frotz interpreter - ASM problems!
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 13:17:17 +0000
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Erik Max Francis wrote:
> 
> 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.

This is WEIRD!

Bye,

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Stuart Moore.