Re: Query re optimising compilers

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From: hjm
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1988 15:10

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If my memory serves me, some of the new RISCy chips do an explicit test for
zero as they are tweaked for multiplication by small integers, so the compiler
needn't do the optimisation anyway for these chips :-).

	Hubert Matthews

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Subject: Re: Query re optimising compilers
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