Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Sep 7, 2007, 12:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20070907125501.GA21142@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <E4A6490A-ABA9-4383-978E-C7F2E4BC9C23@wincent.com>

On 2007-09-07 14:33:42 +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

> Well, you picked a very specific algorithm amenable to that kind of
> optimization: small, manageable, with a minimal and well-defined
> performance critical section that could be written in assembly. Note
> how a good chunk of the implementation was still in C.

And this is of course exactly the kind of spot where you _would_ use assembly in the real world. 99.99% of code is better written in C than assembler, but there is that 0.01% where hand-coded assembler is a better choice.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle

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