Portable "asm" (Was: The D Programming Language)

[Tim Boemker]

> To which the obvious reply is speed - functions invocation can be 
> RELATIVELY expensive.  The time taken to invoke a subroutine may
> out way any gains that the asm statement made. Disclaimer - I don't use
> asm - don't plan on it either.

"Relatively": true.  But if a routine is relatively large (powerful), it
is called relatively infrequently.