From: Fokkema DOT DBRA AT delorie DOT com, 1043730 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: far pointers again Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:02:51 GMT Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 26 Message-ID: <7thnjr$gsm@cs.vu.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: galjas.cs.vu.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] X-Poster-Key: sha1:tyKJtJ4O9Gx95R0tW7siSJaHrrQ= Cancel-Lock: sha1:LIBtEin+gyr3Ode3FMA9q2Ix2M8= To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote: : Instruction counts is not the whole story. You need to measure the : effect of this is a real-life program. Experience shows that the : effect is negligible to non-existent. I think you're right if you time all that in a real program, because it are just a few instructions in thousands. But as an asm programmer, it looks to me it's not that hard to implement efficient code given a portion of c code. You are right that this does not really affect the speed of a program, but it is harder to code. But I will come back to this. : This is free software we are talking about. With free software, there : are two ways of getting things done *your* way: : (a) Do it yourself. After all, since you are annoyed by the : absence of the feature, who's better than you to make it happen? : (b) Pay someone to do it. Since the compiler sources are freely : available, you need only to find a programmer willing to do the : job. For a sufficient amount of money, I bet that all the GCC : development team will be lining up ;-). Again, you are right. Maybe I'll download the source and try it myself, but maybe it is not necessary anymore. Thanx, David