John Dammeyer wrote: >The only way you are going to know which algorithm is the fastest is >to study the machine code.
I don't agree. When the Pentium came onto the scene with many RISC-like qualities, benchmarks of many sequences of code became counter intuitive. Techniques that were clearly superior on 486s lost out on the Pentium. I would suggest that benchmarking is the only way to find a 'fastest' algorithm. The site Rob pointed us to: http://fastcode.sourceforge.net/fastcodeproject/ would seem to indicate significant differences between different versions of Pentium even. My 2 cents. -malcolm _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
