Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:18299 comp.sys.mac.programmer:1626 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!endor!singer From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: LightspeedC 3.0 Review (long) Message-ID: <4971@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 17 Jul 88 18:28:53 GMT References: <7215@cup.portal.com> <14534@santra.UUCP> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: singer@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) Organization: Symantec/THINK Technologies, Bedford, MA Lines: 14 In article <14534@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes: [Miscellaneous griping about the missing '881 inline support] It's not so terrible as all that. I agree that the lack of FPCP opcodes in the inline assembler is a deficiency, but between the inline generation of the normal arithmetic opcodes and the high-performance library ("Math881") that I wrote ( :-] ) you'll find that your code is plenty fast. >I like C, but nothing beats 10% asm, 90% C programming. I guess so; actually, my code is 95% Pascal, 5% C... --Rich