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Narvi wrote:
[..snip snip snippety snip..]

>>I'm not speaking of your average code, I'm speaking of high-speed assembly
>>language programs.
>>
> 
> 
> and how many millions of lines of that have you written and maintained?
> Are you sure it would not be faster if it was re-written in C and compiled
> ?

I started this thread for more as a list of features FreeBSD needs in 
order to gain additional user base - I think it has successfully 
dribbled into -chat worthy commentary, so let's move it off advocacy please?

Eric


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