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Article #1923Re: Aggressive optimization
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 07:26
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 07:26
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In article <1932@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes: > I will suggest that you have no evidence, only anecdotes, > for the alleged pervasive bugginess of optimizing compilers. He says this while another comp.lang.c poster complains about an optimizer bug, while I find that a new optimizer crashes on an empty loop, and while someone else sees an optimizing Fortran compiler that still produces incorrect code for overly complex control structures. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Aggressive optimization Message-ID: <2303:Nov607:26:0890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 6 Nov 90 07:26:08 GMT References: <1849@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <PCG.90Nov1171210@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> <1932@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: IR Lines: 10