From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: 9700(1) speeded up 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2435
Posted: Tue Aug 31 21:01:42 1982
Received: Tue Aug 31 21:01:42 1982

Out of curiousity, I tried running the C profiler on 9700(1) to find
out what makes it so slow.  It was spending most of its time clearing
its internal data structures;  I made some simple changes to that
piece of code and the program now runs 3-4 times as fast as it used to.