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Date:      03 Sep 1998 18:54:25 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Rodrigo Ormonde <ormonde@aker.com.br>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Assembler with FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <xzpk93lxhku.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Rodrigo Ormonde's message of "Thu, 03 Sep 1998 12:36:03 -0300"
References:  <3.0.3.32.19980903123603.0068c6f4@cnt.org.br>

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Rodrigo Ormonde <ormonde@aker.com.br> writes:
>   I have to write a few high speed routines in assembler to run on a
> FreeBSD box. I used to program in assembler to DOS, so I think I have the
> necessary knowledge to do it on FreeBSD.

Why do you want to do that? FreeBSD isn't DOS. Your assembler routine
is unlikely to be significantly faster than the corresponding C code
compiled with 'gcc -O3'.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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