Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk (Jim Dixon)
Subject: Re: Transputer and Coherent UNIX
Organization: AIKI Parallel Systems Ltd
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 17:44:47 +0000
Message-ID: <777923087snz@aiki.demon.co.uk>

In article <hRUWuAhOBh107h@tordivel.no> you write:

> >Read a little more carefully and you will find that your D = my A.  A decent
> >implementation is a lot more than 200 lines, though, because you have to
> >use assembler to get reasonable performance.
> 
> This is very soon a competition of who is the most clever boy in the class.

Indeed.

> An implementation in a high level language in not very much more than 200 lines.> And with a 486 class computer the slow interface speed of B004 means that
>  assembly language
> is not necessary.

I have done it.  I implemented it several different ways and benchmarked
the results very carefully.  Assembly runs 2x-4x faster for certain
functions, but certain routines run as fast in C.
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