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Article #11616Re: Compilers and efficiency
From: Mark Lord
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 16:35
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 16:35
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<Ross Alexander says: < < [quoting Herman Rubin] < >To clarify, I meant the specific ability to place the transmission in low gears. < < But the auto transmission knows when to do that for you. This is probably a lousy way to try to shoot down this analogy. It is fairly common knowledge that manual transmissions get significantly better fuel economy than manual transmissions. Therefore, when fuel performance is important, manual control is also very important. :)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Compilers and efficiency Message-ID: <6812@bwdls58.bnr.ca> Date: 16 May 91 16:35:19 GMT References: <9782@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <653@ctycal.UUCP> <28297C23.6984@tct.com> <rwa.673895513@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <12216@mentor.cc. <KERS.91May14081505@cdollin.hpl.hp.com> Sender: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 11