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[Walter Bright]

On 11/5/2013 2:05 AM, Chris wrote:
> He also told me about the rule of diminishing returns*. If with well written C
> program you can get 90% of assembly's performance, leave it at that. If you
> wanna get the remaining 10% and use assembly instead, the cost of it may not be
> worth the returns.

That wasn't really true for 16 bit DOS programs. There was a much greater return 
for ASM programs - not just speed, but a large size reduction. The latter was 
critical because of the tight memory constraints.