> His original Kernel, L3, was written in pure assembly for x86, using every > trick possible. >
there's nothing wrong with assembly per ce, but i don't follow this logic. generally speaking, compilers are better than humans at doing instruction scrabble. and worse, optimal instructions are a function of (at least) the cpu model, northbridge and memory, as slightly different memory latency or bandwidth could alter the tradeoff between cycles and code size. - erik
