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Article #11487Re: Compilers and efficiency
From: Herman Rubin
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 15:05
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 15:05
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In article <rwa.673895513@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>, rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) writes:
> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> [much chat about whether Herman's apps are typical elided]
> >How much of the driving public uses the low gears of automatic transmissions?
>
> All of them, Herman. Whenever they accelerate from a stop. That's
> what an automatic transmission is for.
To clarify, I meant the specific ability to place the transmission in low gears.
Current computer hardware can do anything,assuming sufficient external storage,
but not efficiently. Similarly with software.
--
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet) {purdue,pur-ee}!l.cc!hrubin(UUCP)
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