| Subject: RE: Is It about time we had a new O/S? |
Author: Jo Even (213-187-172-45.dd.nextgentel.com)
Date: 01-24-2002 01:10
FatRakoon wrote:
> all that many improvements, but code
> written in assembly, is always faster than
> code written in C.
> Tell me otherwise, and you are a liar.
Definitely not! A good C-compiler can produce much faster and better code than a human. This is especially true when we're talking about a project as big as a TOS-clone, which would consist of tens of thousands of lines of code. A compiler can optimize this in seconds, or at worst minutes. A human would use weeks or months. Realistically speaking, the human will spend lots of time optimizing small parts, and the majority of the code will be slower than what the compiler produce.
Assembly *can* be faster than C, atleast when dealing with small and specific pieces of code. But generally speaking, I trust a compiler more than I trust a human when it comes to optimizing.
> Maybe its only me who is getting the
> benefits of NVDI then?
With MagiC, Nova-VDI, MVDI or fVDI the only point in installing NVDI is the font- and printersupport.
> You lot tell me how to get Mint to run
> faster, I will tell you lot how to install
> NVDI and trebble the speed of your Atari!
Well, this might be valid if you normally use TOS-VDI, but very few does. And it won't make your Atari faster. It will *feel* faster, but it will rarely make the work any more efficient. Just more comfortable, which is important enough :-)
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