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Narvi narvi at haldjas.folklore.ee
Fri Mar 5 10:54:57 PST 2004


On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Johnson David wrote:

> On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:15 pm, Daniela wrote:
>
> > I'm not speaking of your average code, I'm speaking of high-speed
> > assembly language programs.
>
> Looking back on this thread, I confirmed my memory that it was somewhat
> on topic with the applications that keep people from dumping Windows.
> When I look around at what people are using on Windows here at work, I
> don't see any high-speed requirements. Intead I see Word, PowerPoint,
> Outlook, etc. These don't need the incremental speed increase that hand
> coded assembly gives you.

And any replacement will be in the 'millions of lines of code' depertment
and completely infeasible in asm.

>
> David
>


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