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Article #1922Re: Aggressive optimization
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 07:20
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 07:20
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In article <4179@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: > Surely the cardinal rule for an assembler is not "one-to-one translation" > but "full access to all machine operations". Exactly! As a matter of principle I'm even willing to argue that the programmer should be able to exert control over instruction scheduling, even though I am reasonably confident that the compiler does this well. > Why is it evil to offer > optimisation as well? It's not. I hope we can get Herman to agree on this. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wuarchive!mit-eddie!rutgers!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Aggressive optimization Message-ID: <2205:Nov607:20:3090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 6 Nov 90 07:20:30 GMT References: <2301@wn1.sci.kun.nl> <8960020@hpfcso.HP.COM> <4179@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Organization: IR Lines: 14