[Coco] 6809 assemblers (lwtools)

[Richard Goedeken]

In light of the recent discussion about lwasm, I wanted to offer my own 2 
cents as I have been using this quite a lot lately.  First, thank you William 
so much for your work on lwtools.  The documentation is great and I'm very 
thankful for this tool.  I've written about 2k lines of assembly in the last 
few weeks and lwasm has been great.

The only complaint that I have is that it has become increasingly slower as my 
code base has grown, to the point now where it's pretty frustrating.  Here's a 
test:

time ../lwtools-4.6/bin/lwasm --define=VISUALTIME -b -o GAME.BIN 
--list=game_complete_output.asm main.asm

real	0m17.549s
user	0m17.439s
sys	0m0.013s

The output listing is 2454 lines, and my machine running 64-bit linux on a 3.2 
ghz 4-core AMD Phenom(tm) II 955 CPU.  If the source code for lwasm is public 
I could build and run a gprof test to see what's taking most of the time.

Richard