From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:56:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709071155570.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46E0EEC6.4020004@op5.se>

Hi,

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> > El 7/9/2007, a las 2:21, Dmitry Kakurin escribi?:
> > 
> > > I just wanted to get a sense of how many people share this "Git should
> > > be in pure C" doctrine.
> > 
> > Count me as one of them. Git is all about speed, and C is the best choice
> > for speed, especially in context of Git's workload.
> > 
> 
> Nono, hand-optimized assembly is the best choice for speed. C is just
> a little more portable ;-)

I have a buck here that says that you cannot hand-optimise assembly (on 
modern processors at least) as good as even gcc.

Ciao,
Dscho