No definite answer can be given to this question. The algorithms
decribed have the same asymptotic behaviour as the previous |.ASM| code.
They do, though, require significant amounts of temporary storage
and thus strain somewhat the garbage collector. Performance could be
enhanced only at the price of re-coding significant amounts of code,
losing the advantages of these small, highly modular routines.
We wish to stress this document, with all its LATEX text, is less
than 500 lines long. The assembly routines used previously wound well
above the 1500 lines. If writing 10 lines of assembly removes 10
neurons from a programmer's brain, how many neurons are lost by a
10-person team writing these 1500 lines?