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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Aggressive optimization
Message-ID: <1550:Nov606:53:5090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 06:53:50 GMT
References: <29028:Oct1906:58:2890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <9239:Oct2003:53:1890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <2672@l.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <2672@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
> I have no objection to the compiler helping to optimize, and even making 
> suggestions to the programmer.  But I object to the first sentence; there
> should be NO details of the machine language, instruction overlap, etc.,
> hidden from the programmer.

It is, unfortunately, impossible to standardize a language that makes
allowances for every hardware known to man.

---Dan