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@@ -8,22 +8,22 @@ Chapter 53\
 
 ### The Naked Truth About Speed in 3-D Animation {#Heading2}
 
-Years ago, this friend of mine—let’s call him Bert—went to Hawaii with
+Years ago, this friend of mine—let's call him Bert—went to Hawaii with
 three other fellows to celebrate their graduation from high school. This
 was an unchaperoned trip, and they behaved pretty much as responsibly as
-you’d expect four teenagers to behave, which is to say, not; there’s a
-story about a rental car that, to this day, Bert can’t bring himself to
+you'd expect four teenagers to behave, which is to say, not; there's a
+story about a rental car that, to this day, Bert can't bring himself to
 tell. They had a good time, though, save for one thing: no girls.
 
-By and by, they met a group of girls by the pool, but the boys couldn’t
+By and by, they met a group of girls by the pool, but the boys couldn't
 get past the hi-howya-doin stage, so they retired to their hotel room to
-plot a better approach. This being the early ’70s, and them being
+plot a better approach. This being the early '70s, and them being
 slightly tipsy teenagers with raging hormones and the effective combined
 IQ of four eggplants, it took them no time at all to come up with a
 brilliant plan: streaking. The girls had mentioned their room number, so
-the boys piled into the elevator, pushed the button for the girls’
+the boys piled into the elevator, pushed the button for the girls'
 floor, shucked their clothes as fast as they could, and sprinted to the
-girls’ door. They knocked on the door and ran on down the hall. As the
+girls' door. They knocked on the door and ran on down the hall. As the
 girls opened their door, Bert and his crew raced past, toward the
 elevator, laughing hysterically.
 
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ laughter, tears streaming down his face. The universe had blessed him
 with one of those exceedingly rare moments of perfect timing and
 execution.
 
-The universe wasn’t done with Bert quite yet, though. He was still
+The universe wasn't done with Bert quite yet, though. He was still
 contorted with laughter—and still quite thoroughly undressed—when the
 elevator doors opened again. On the lobby.
 
-And with that, we come to this chapter’s topics: raw speed and hidden
+And with that, we come to this chapter's topics: raw speed and hidden
 surfaces.
 
 ### Raw Speed, Part 1: Assembly Language {#Heading3}
@@ -56,27 +56,27 @@ the user wants fast response. And, in the course of pursuing
 performance, there are times when a little assembly language goes a long
 way.
 
-We’re now four chapters into development of the X-Sharp 3-D animation
+We're now four chapters into development of the X-Sharp 3-D animation
 package. In realtime animation, performance is *sine qua non* (Latin for
-“Make it fast or find another line of work”), so some judiciously
+"Make it fast or find another line of work"), so some judiciously
 applied assembly language is in order. In the previous chapter, we got
 up to a serviceable performance level by switching to fixed-point math,
 then implementing the fixed-point multiplication and division functions
-in assembly in order to take advantage of the 386’s 32-bit capabilities.
-There’s another area of the program that fairly cries out for assembly
+in assembly in order to take advantage of the 386's 32-bit capabilities.
+There's another area of the program that fairly cries out for assembly
 language: matrix math. The function to multiply a matrix by a vector
 (**XformVec()**) and the function to concatenate matrices
 (**ConcatXforms()**) both loop heavily around calls to **FixedMul();** a
 lot of calling and looping can be eliminated by converting these
 functions to pure assembly language.
 
-Listing 53.1 is the module FIXED.ASM from this chapter’s iteration of
+Listing 53.1 is the module FIXED.ASM from this chapter's iteration of
 X-Sharp, with **XformVec()** and **ConcatXforms()** implemented in
 assembly language. The code is heavily optimized, to the extent of
 completely unrolling the loops via macros so that looping is eliminated
 altogether. FIXED.ASM is highly effective; the time taken for matrix
-math is now down to the point where it’s a fairly minor component of
-execution time, representing less than ten percent of the total. It’s
+math is now down to the point where it's a fairly minor component of
+execution time, representing less than ten percent of the total. It's
 time to turn our optimization sights elsewhere.
 
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