From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Which assembler to use? Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <8aioio$jcg$1 AT news DOT tue DOT nl> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 X-Trace: /K49oEqNFuWZ6i2zJ3Eojm/gnPzNPfq7Lygg60gdtglFtnG7ob7k+gqcsE8t8ShVINjhpra+NpQf!EYHvIv10zUdYk6OuSCt8RMIUF92Gj88B+pZ1hdg3Ri11+25fEhJ6sc78Sxn70DmbjdzWE7zpg/44!2dbe X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:11:43 GMT Distribution: world Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:11:43 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:56:54 +0100, "Student, T.U.E." wrote: >I'm currently working on a VESA library Reinventing the wheel _again_? >and I want to implement the sprite drawing functions and such >in assembly. I already have a working sprite routine (for 8 bits >color modes) for the NASM compiler. Now I'm wondering whether >the GAS assembler is faster/produces better code than NASM >or is there no difference? Assembly is assembly, isn't it? >(btw.: how much faster is aligned code than non-aligned?). There's only really a difference on K6-2's IIRC. -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/