Re: use of the break statement

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From: Konrad Schwarz
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 04:28

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H. Rubin writes:
>What you are saying is that if someone finds a method of coming up 
>with code which when intelligently compiled will run faster that the
>compiler should not try to take that and compile it intelligently?

It's easy to optimize: enumerate all possibilities and see which is
quickest.

P == NP ?

Konrad Schwarz

PS: What I am trying to say is that the time complexity of many
optimizations makes them intractible.

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Subject: Re: use of the break statement
Date: 19 Mar 1996 22:28:38 -0600
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