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    20-Apr-86 21:13:59
Fm: Ben Blish 72667,1341
To: Steve Ahlstrom 76703,2006

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Yeah, I hear that… sometimes…. others say that the Aztec doesn't hold a candle to the Lattice (Microsystems says so, to be exact), and I bet you for SURE that aztec wouldn't have generated the code sequences that drive the high performance parts of my software; I use ALL the registers in some sections… ANY 'c' compiler has to use some registers just to tell if it's underwear is on frontwise. Also, as a 'c' user of long standing (I love 'c', by the way, despite it's very few shortcomings), I feel quite sure that writing 'c' code to perform as this particular assembler code does would yeild virtually unreadable 'c' code. And by perform as, I mean in the same logical sequence… No way for speed. No. Way. –Ben–