1 Dec
2010
1 Dec
'10
3:44 p.m.
In article <FF6AB92D97A23A409701CDBF66F03FCD03DC3E71EE at 505fuji>,
Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> writes:
I don't necessarily agree that assembler is
required "to get full
optimization of performance" today because of the work that's been done
over the past thre e decades or so in compiler design.
I agree. For instance, templated C++ recursive descent parsers can
produce code that is faster than the C library routine atoi. See
<http://cplusplus-soup.com/2010/01/08/boost-spirit-v2-x-versus-cs-atoi/>
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