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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: using (ugh! yetch!) assembler
Keywords: PKARC ZOO
Message-ID: <3000@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 88 14:14:10 GMT
References:  <356@marob.MASA.COM> <2663@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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In article <2663@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:
> In article <4452@saturn.ucsc.edu> spcecdt@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Space Cadet) writes:
> }The only reason I prefer PK*** over
> }ZOO is that PK*** is, in my experience, about twice as fast.  
> 
> Most of the speed difference comes from the fact that ZOO is written entirely
> in C, while PK*** is written mostly in assembler.  

Something to ponder while waiting at the keyboard ...



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Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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