Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 09:37:03 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Also, when you do have a performance problem, start by looking at your
> algorithm.  In my YAMD malloc debugger, I once had a linear search for
> allocated blocks.  This was very slow.  I could have rewritten it in
> hand-tuned assembly, but it still wouldn't have helped very much.

The usual rule of thumb is that hand-coding in assembly could speed up
the code by a factor of 2 at the most.  If you need more than that,
assembly is not worth trying; you need to change the algorithms.