Re: Asm or C (was: Re: New Web browser for MiNT)

[Kristoffer Lawson <setok@fishpool.com>]

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> 
> If it was properly coded in C it would have been *a lot* faster, a
> hand-optimised assembly-version would probably have been only
> marginally faster. The only part you can really speed up with assembly
> is things like table-calculations etc, small parts that could be
> written in assembly.

And, more obviously, jpeg&giff depackers. This is a clear area where
hand-optimized asm can be very useful.

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