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[Ken Brakey]

This started out being MY message!
CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE!
Ken

Benoit Cerrina wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I meant february.
> Sorry this comes from switching between US keyboard at work (Qwerty) and french
> at home (Azerty)
> Ben
>  On dim, 23 jan 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> > you can find another example in the februqry issue of ddj where a couple of
> > inline assembly code to do some large number multiplication can double the
> > efficiency of said multiplication.  This was used in an article on how to
> > optimize RSA computing.  By the way out of around 6 or 7 dramatic optimization
> > this was the only one which included writing assembly and it was only two
> > instructions.
> > Ben
> >
> >
> > On sam, 22 jan 2000, you wrote:
> > > Oliver Eichler wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Am Don, 20 Jan 2000 schrieben Sie:
> > > > > I take away my question about including assembler sources. Just today I made
> > > > > myself familiar with GCC inline assembler.
> > > >
> > > > Do you really need inline assembler? My experience with that under VC++
> > > > is that you will gain next to nothing.
> > >
> > > Not all code must be completely portable, some of us need to talor
> > > kernel
> > > and driver level code for specific platforms.  Locking primatives, cache
> > > line management, atomic instructions, these are a few of our favorite
> > > things.
> > >
> > > duane
> > --
> > Benoit Cerrina
> --
> Benoit Cerrina