Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:54:40 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Most wanted Message-ID: <20040305205357.Q38020@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <200403051009.20729.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0403011839470.3269-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <200403050615.55106.dgw@liwest.at> <200403051009.20729.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Johnson David wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:15 pm, Daniela wrote: > > > I'm not speaking of your average code, I'm speaking of high-speed > > assembly language programs. > > Looking back on this thread, I confirmed my memory that it was somewhat > on topic with the applications that keep people from dumping Windows. > When I look around at what people are using on Windows here at work, I > don't see any high-speed requirements. Intead I see Word, PowerPoint, > Outlook, etc. These don't need the incremental speed increase that hand > coded assembly gives you. And any replacement will be in the 'millions of lines of code' depertment and completely infeasible in asm. > > David >
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