#: 16779 S3/Languages
    25-Oct-92  19:32:04
Sb: #A bedtime story
Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
To: Hackers

I have an interesting story for you C programmers.

While working on ar, I changed the table structure to use less memory (so that
more would fit in 64k) and promptly discovered that compression times had
doubled.  After a bit of sleuthing, I discovered that the simple change caused
three double shifts (mul by 8) to be replaced by a call to ccmult for a mul by
6.  Profiling the code shows that ar was spending 50% of it's time in ccmult.

The moral?   Make up your own ;-)  But at the least you should consider using
pointers instead of arrays.

Carl

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