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.
