>Acctually it does give yoy a speed increase, but that's only because you >can optimize it much better if you write it directly in Assembler. Not much, especially if you use a decent compiler, like Code Warior. There would be a speed ingrease, we're talking like 1 clock cycle though, and at 132 million per second, it's no worth the trouble for such a minimal gain. -C.J.-