a style question

[Steve Friedl]

In article <4762 at navy8.UUCP>, kreidler at motcid.UUCP (Joe Kreidler) writes:
> 
> As software systems keep getting larger and more complex, it is
> important to develop code that is easy to understand and can be ported
> to new applications. This comes at the cost of less efficient code
> (when compared to assembler).

This is seductive but true only superficially.

Q: Given two equally-talented teams of programmers, one using C and
   one using assembler, which team will produce the system with best
   execution time for a non-trivial program?

A: The team writing in C.  While the assembler folks are busy optimizing
   that inner loop, the C people are testing three different algorithms
   to see which one is *really* faster.

     Steve

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