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From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>
Subject: Re: Compiler for Z80/6510
Date: 1999/11/30
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> a �crit dans le message :
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> Fine, but (a) everyone agrees with this, and (b) this is not
> relevant to the thread. The thread is not about whether it is
> reasonable to write anything in assembler, it is the interesting
> technical issue of whether compilers can do a better job than
> expert humans writing assembler language. That's an interesting
> issue, but does not have much to do with the issue of whether
> software *should* be written in ASM!

Ok, fine but I do not find this question really useful :-)

I do not want to be compared to an optimizer, this is not my job.

Again maybe some human will be able to write pretty good ASM
optimized code, but what's the point ? This is a nice experimental
competition but I when it comes to maintaining this code the experiment
become a nightmare!

So as a pure competition fine but I found the time spent to become a
full human-optimizer-for-asm-code not a good investement :-)

Pascal.

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