From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 17 08:36:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F7C16A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:36:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CF343D48 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from flowers@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr3so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.108])2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:30:27 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.151]) by pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0HWB00G1TN2G6N90@pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:30:16 -0600 (MDT) Received: from SIRIUS (S0106004001438e5b.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.47.89]) 2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:30:27 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:30:24 -0600 From: Dan MacMillan In-reply-to: <200404171050.29467.dgw@liwest.at> To: Daniela Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Beginning C++ in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:36:29 -0000 From: Daniela Sent: April 17, 2004 04:50 > > OO languages can be optimized differently than non-OO languages, and > when you translate one language into another, this advantage gets lost. I challenge you to defend this claim with a specific example. > I would rather say, assembly is fast and can be portable, if it's done > properly. How does one properly do an assembly language program for the x86 instruction set (for example) so that it will run on a StrongARM? -Dan