Re: nasm over gas?

[Eric W. Biederman]

insecure <insecure@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sunday 07 September 2003 21:49, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > insecure <insecure@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > On Friday 05 September 2003 15:59, Michael Frank wrote:
> > > What gives you an impression that anyone is going to rewrite linux in
> > > asm? I _only_ saying that compiler-generated asm is not 'good'. It's
> > > mediocre. Nothing more. I am not asm zealot.
> >
> > I think I would agree with that statement most compiler-generated assembly
> > code is mediocre in general.  At the same time I would add most human
> > generated assembly is poor, and a pain to maintain.
> 
> I had an impression people think gcc generates code which
> is 'mostly good' even compared to handwritted code.
> That is not true (yet).

It is true.  Not when compared to hand optimized code.  But compared
to a day to day churn it is true.  Although I tend to still prefer gcc
2.95 for the code size.  

Eric
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