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In article <11900@life.ai.mit.edu> misha@just-right.ai.mit.edu (Mike Bolotski) writes:
> And I like the
> ever-so-subtle transition from optimal addition sequence to 
> pointer version of array code.  

See, this is what I mean about computer scientists. Anyone who bothers
to think about the problem will understand why, in a general
computation, converting array references to pointer references is the
same as finding an optimal addition chain. (Hint: In machine language,
how are array references implemented?)

By the way, why do you insist upon repeatedly misquoting the phrase
``optimal addition chain in a general computation''? Which word don't
you understand?

> And just how seriously do you expect your opinions to be taken if
> you haven't read the basic references about compiler construction
> or theory of computation?

I have read each of the AHU/ASU/etc books. Once. I find none of them
particularly useful as references, as everything they say is presented
more to my taste either in Knuth or in original research articles. I
certainly find it amusing that you consider the currently fashionable
elementary textbooks to be ``basic references.''

---Dan