On 12/3/2010 2:58 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
If any competent assembler programmer ever looks at COBOL-generated code they invariably choke on their coffee and donut, since it is the most awful code they have ever seen.
I've not looked at COBOL-generated code. I've looked at the code generated by the C compiler and it's quite good. The compiler worries about both cache and pipeline effects and, as a result, does things an assembler language programmer would never do because the code would not be maintainable. The worst thing about using the C compiler is having to code your program in C. ;-) -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 [email protected] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
