[Coco] Re: gcc-coco revisited

[Roger Taylor]

At 08:03 PM 11/15/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Nathan Woods wrote:
>>LOL.  In any case, I can definitely say that MESS (and MAME) will never 
>>be as fast as a standalone emulator.
>
>True.
>
>>Jeff's emulator is written in highly optimized x86 assembler and MESS is 
>>written in portable C.
>
>Not a reason.  A good C optimizing compiler with well written C code can 
>produce very good and fast assembler code.

It depends... if the C source is sloppy enough that an optimizer has what 
it takes to produce perfect assembly code out of it, then such an optimizer 
can probably write the entire program itself without the help of the 
programmer.  ;)

cheers