[sdiy] The Chameleon Guitar

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Csaba Zvekan at 2009-04-09 07:14...
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> Sure you loose performance  
> the code is not as optimized as it would be in Assembler 
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I should probably point out at this juncture that the output of a DECENT
C compiler can be more efficient than hand-coded assembly.

Whilst assembly is - in theory - faster and more efficient than C, it
can only be so if it is well-written.  You can programme badly in any
language ;-)

When you write in C, you are adding the skills of whoever wrote the
compiler/optimiser to your own.  So you may start off with some
not-very-efficient C, but you can end up with a very efficient end-product.

But, as I said, it all depends on the quality of the C compiler, hence
my use of capitals in the first paragraph.

(End of obligatory input to any assembly vs C discussion ;-)

M


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