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- From: sunilg@access.digex.com (Sunil Gupta)
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- Subject: Re: Curves in QuickDraw GX
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 17:26:14 GMT
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- werner@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (John Werner) writes:
- :
- : Also, hand-coding something in assembler for a RISC chip is MUCH
- : harder than on a traditional processor. There's a smaller instruction
- : set, more registers, and you have to worry about pipelining. A good
- : optimizing compiler can usually do a better job than most humans can
- : do (at least in a reasonable amount of time).
-
- Your comment is true for RISC processors, but the complaint was being
- made about the CISC implementation. My small (4 person) programming shop
- maintains our code for a number of platforms. For CISC implementations
- we usually tune critical sections in assembly and usually let the
- compiler worry about that for RISC implementations. If we can do that,
- I'm sure that a megabucks company can spare a few programmers for a
- project that would greatly enhance their products.
-
- Sunil Gupta
- Monsoon Software, Inc.
- sg@monsoon.com
-