#music on the amiga
19-Apr-86 19:01:50
Sb: #15395-#music on the amiga
Fm: Jez San @ Argonaut S/W 72247,3661
To: Nick Frabotta 76067,2146
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Nick- C does *NOT* compile to anywhere NEAR as good as machine code!
I guarantee that any C code you can produce will be about 3 to 4 times the
size as hand-coded assembler, when compiled! Try it for yourself, one day!
Naturally, there are C compilers, and there are C compilers. The best being
Green-Hills, from what I've been told. But even THEN, you can usually get at
least a 50% speed increase if you write in pure assembler! As an example of
this, the Amiga flood-fill routines were written in GreenHills C, in OS 1.1.
But in OS1.2, they have downcoded them into Assembler, and they are now
running over 100% faster!