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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming
- Subject: Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming
- From: "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:51:18 -0500
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"White Flame (aka David Holz)" <whiteflame52@y.a.h.o.o.com> wrote in message
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> "Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:bd96oo$ian$5@titan.btinternet.com...
> > Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote:
> > | Well, there are certainly things you can do in asm which cannot be
> > | done
> > | in other programming languages....
> >
> > Such as ?
> > Kevin.
> > P.S. Yes, I do program in assembler at times.
>
> Access the carry bit.
On older machines precise timing was available (counting clock cycles).
>
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> White Flame (aka David Holz)
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