From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 3 09:55:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13266 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 09:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13259 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 09:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id SAA04130; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 18:54:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 18:54:26 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Rodrigo Ormonde Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assembler with FreeBSD References: <3.0.3.32.19980903123603.0068c6f4@cnt.org.br> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 03 Sep 1998 18:54:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: Rodrigo Ormonde's message of "Thu, 03 Sep 1998 12:36:03 -0300" Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA13262 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rodrigo Ormonde writes: > I have to write a few high speed routines in assembler to run on a > FreeBSD box. I used to program in assembler to DOS, so I think I have the > necessary knowledge to do it on FreeBSD. Why do you want to do that? FreeBSD isn't DOS. Your assembler routine is unlikely to be significantly faster than the corresponding C code compiled with 'gcc -O3'. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message