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Subject: Re: Re: slow assembly on the Sun
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Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 15:25:34 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 16 15:25:34 1984
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     The slow assemblies are due to the use of an N**3 algorithm for 
deciding which jumps should be generated as long, medium, or short
jump instructions.  Sun can provide an assembler which always generates
the worst-case code, which solves the problem at some cost in performance.
But this is really a stopgap measure.

					John Nagle