Portable assembler? - Re: Undefined behaviour in C - Re: Dennis Ritchie has died

Funny how C is climbing back up the popularity chart http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Are coders and managers realizing that the hype on the "high level" languages on speed of development causing real slow downs in performance and having to go back to the Real Thing TM. Long Live C :) I am currently coding some C just for fun. It is in C, MARC book data decoder, because every other language I have tried for the same problem were slow as slow can be. Under the hood there seems to be some very poor implementations of certain constructs and being able to code your own in C makes THE difference. Dave Caroline (Long time Assembler programmer) source data http://www.archive.org/details/marc_records_scriblio_net time to parse to txt format in C and put back on disk archivist at hp:~/marc$ time ./decodeall real 11m29.413s user 2m26.685s sys 0m41.751s disk bound