Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!ames!xanth!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!jurjen From: jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen N.E. Bos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: The Mythical Man Month Keywords: assembler Message-ID: <7755@boring.cwi.nl> Date: 6 Dec 88 09:46:04 GMT References: <6176@fluke.COM> <10330090@accuvax.nwu.edu> <6211@fluke.COM> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 13 In article <6211@fluke.COM> mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) writes: >In article <10330090@accuvax.nwu.edu> bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) writes: >An interesting example might be FullWrite. I have zero inside knowledge, but >I'll go out on a limb and say that it's slowness is due it's design, not the >implementation language. An assembly language version would not be >appreciably faster. > Ever seen WriteNow? It's really fun to see this program using a debugger. I watched the spelling checker in action... It's impressive. I think that one of the main reasons that WriteNow is so fast (and true WYSIWYG) and small (only 70K) is that it's written in assembly language. -- -- Jurjen N.E. Bos (jurjen@cwi.nl)