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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:56:42 +0100 (BST)
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Cc: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>,
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Hi,

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> > El 7/9/2007, a las 2:21, Dmitry Kakurin escribi?:
> > 
> > > I just wanted to get a sense of how many people share this "Git should
> > > be in pure C" doctrine.
> > 
> > Count me as one of them. Git is all about speed, and C is the best choice
> > for speed, especially in context of Git's workload.
> > 
> 
> Nono, hand-optimized assembly is the best choice for speed. C is just
> a little more portable ;-)

I have a buck here that says that you cannot hand-optimise assembly (on 
modern processors at least) as good as even gcc.

Ciao,
Dscho