19 Dec
2006
19 Dec
'06
1:41 a.m.
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 13:35 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:18 PM, Chris M wrote:
Right. Also, from the micro world, two words: Small C. I love the
approach. Among other benefits, it allows one to write something in C
to get the algorithm correct, and then re-write and/or optimize the
generated assembly to speed up inner loops, and frequently executed
code, as needed.
Peace,
Warren E. Wolfe
wizard at voyager.net
Is it a *recent* development of compilers that
as an
intermediate step the source code will first be
reduced to assembler mnemonics, before being reduced
to object code?
Absolutely not. The UNIX world, at least, has been doing it that
way for decades.