Hi Rich,

"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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I skipped this groaner the first time through. You could program in
almost any language to the same speed of performance if you simply
focused on the 5% bottleneck and coded it in assembler.

Good point, although in the case of highly sophisticated CPUs (superscalar,
VLIW, etc.), the difficulty in getting all the cache and register access
scheduling optimal is difficult enough that there are typically very few
people who can consistently do better in assembly than a high level language
with an optimizer.

In many cases selecting a better algorithm might buy one a lot more!