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Article #9221Optimizing C compilers, and their use...
From: Benson
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1986 22:13
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1986 22:13
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All the time, on the net, in casual conversation, in literature and
especially in discussions of the forthcoming C Language Standard, I have
heard the statement:
"You can allow/do/write <anything> because any
decent optimizing compiler will fix/compile it."
My question is:
How many of you who say this (or even just how many of you
on the net) have an optimizing C compiler? And how many of
those actually use them?
Until people have them, work-arounds ("kludges") will have to be. And
until people use the compilers, just writing <anything> won't do.
Bjorn Freeman-Benson
P.S. Oh, and what would you be willing to pay (up-and-above normal
C compiler costs) for such an optimizing compiler? Remember - until
you have one, you can't take advantage of it, but them engineers who
wrote it have a done a lot of work...
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!bnfb From: bnfb@uw-june (Benson) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Optimizing C compilers, and their use... Message-ID: <1184@uw-june> Date: Mon, 1-Sep-86 18:13:03 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-june.1184 Posted: Mon Sep 1 18:13:03 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Sep-86 20:47:33 EDT Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 18 Keywords: optimize, C, compiler