>Thanks Colin and
>Laurent - it was entertaining.

It's what I live for.

Some of the earliest programming I did was in machine code on an 
Apple II+. That was a lot of fun, because if you were trying to do 
something fast and found a way to save a couple of cycles, it could 
be quite a big percentage improvement. With one thing I was trying I 
expanded it sort of in the way Jakob was talking about. Instead of 
repeating the routine every go, I had the same few lines 256 times in 
a row. That cut out a lot of cycles that would be needed for each 
BNE, or whatever.

Of course, I'm going to try and find a faster way of reversing a list 
now. I was just getting warmed up earlier...

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