I forget what it was originally called.

Eddie Wyatt edw at IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU
Fri Mar 11 05:30:54 AEST 1988


> Which brings me to another question:  How good are compilers these
> day?  Can they optimize just as well as a programmer (without
> resorting to assembly, that is) or not?  For example:
		[common subexpress example deleted]

  All depends on the compiler.  ccp is generally a bad optimizing compiler.
Green Hill gcc and Tartan C compilers are suppose to produce lightening fast
executables.  If I could only get gcc to compile a copy of "man", I
might use it.
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Eddie Wyatt 				e-mail: edw at ius1.cs.cmu.edu



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