On Sunday 23 September 2007 21:18:48 Oleg Verych wrote: > 22-09-2007, Steinar H. Gunderson: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:44:04AM +1245, Andreas Fleckl wrote: > >> It features the smallest possible size and memory requirements, the > >> fastest speed, and offers fairly good functionality. > > > > Size and memory aside, I sort of doubt asmutils' sort is faster than > > coreutils' sort just because it's written in assembly. > > > > /* Steinar */ > > I second this. > > Also. Those programmers are inventing wheels again, fsck. Why they don't > want to make (at least) C (at least gcc or tcc) compiler more efficient: > fast but with good optimization? > > And this is not saying about portability of that userspace tools (see > klibc), usability, maintenance. Sigh. I can confirm that it is not faster since I tested it once, I think 'wc' it was. And it is definitely not portable to other platforms either :-) Nevertheless the package brings with it some spirit that is good to have: love to assembly as a language. Maybe there are applications of this package in the embedded world or for some "UNIX on a floppy disk"-kind of distributions. I do not care for the moment. The educational aspect of this package is what makes me want it for our distribution. Steffen
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