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Article #21434Re: Dynamic frequency analysis (was Register usage)
From: Steve Morrison
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 13:13
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 13:13
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In article <966@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
Well, I may be sentimental, but I still prefer "register" and my own
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judgment.
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One motto was stressed over and over again in a course I took on
Software Enginerring back in the seventies: "The goal of Software
Engineering isn't to make good programmers better, it's to make
average programmers as productive as the best."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ginosko!cg-atla!morrison From: morrison@cg-atla.UUCP (Steve Morrison) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Dynamic frequency analysis (was Register usage) Summary: A good heuristic for estimating frequency of use is a Good Thing. Message-ID: <7040@cg-atla.UUCP> Date: 23 May 89 13:13:43 GMT References: <966@aber-cs.UUCP> Distribution: eunet,world Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division, Wilmington, Mass Lines: 13