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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:54:40 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Most wanted
Message-ID:  <20040305205357.Q38020@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <200403051009.20729.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.43.0403011839470.3269-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <200403050615.55106.dgw@liwest.at> <200403051009.20729.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Johnson David wrote:

> On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:15 pm, Daniela wrote:
>
> > I'm not speaking of your average code, I'm speaking of high-speed
> > assembly language programs.
>
> Looking back on this thread, I confirmed my memory that it was somewhat
> on topic with the applications that keep people from dumping Windows.
> When I look around at what people are using on Windows here at work, I
> don't see any high-speed requirements. Intead I see Word, PowerPoint,
> Outlook, etc. These don't need the incremental speed increase that hand
> coded assembly gives you.

And any replacement will be in the 'millions of lines of code' depertment
and completely infeasible in asm.

>
> David
>



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