From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:55:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
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.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
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