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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Assembly or ....
Message-ID: <1988Nov29.181235.23628@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 88 18:12:35 GMT

In article <2025@garth.UUCP> tom@garth.UUCP (Tom Granvold) writes:
>... The most importent comment in the source code was the number
>of machine cycles each instruction took.  Yes we could have used a newer
>faster CPU that has  optimizing complier available for it, but Z80's are
>cheap!

Alas, if you buy your newer faster CPUs from Motorola or Intel, they can't
tell you how many cycles each instruction takes!
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