🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3j78t4$4...@eldborg.rhi.hi.is>,
Hordur Kvaran <hor...@rhi.hi.is> wrote:
>In <3inlj1$2...@crl12.crl.com> ta...@crl.com (Joseph C. Hiller) writes:
>
>>Adam J Lewandowski (alew...@uceng.uc.edu) wrote:
>
>>: For those of you who don't know who he is, Mr. Abrash has written several
>>: books on assembler, optimization, and graphics. He writes some of the 
>>: fastest graphics code out there.  His assignment to the Quake team means 
>>: that we can expect some FAST graphics.
>
>I thought Quake wouldn't have any hard-coding.  If they are going to hard-code
>it in some assembler how are they going to port it to different machines?  
>
>Just my 2 cents worth...
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  C compilers have traditionally supported an option that dumps the
assembly code it generates to a file. I would imagine that they would get
a working version of the client, compile it to assembly, optimize
the living piss out of it (GO MICHAEL!) and then assemble it.


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