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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Aggressive optimization
Message-ID: <2133:Nov607:16:1090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 07:16:10 GMT
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In article <4950@avocado5.UUCP> wallach@motcid.UUCP (Cliff H. Wallach) writes:
> In article <TED.90Oct26124614@kythera.nmsu.edu> ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) writes:
> -if you compile the following code on a sun3 with -O4,
   [ compiled array code ]
  [ obviously faster hand code ]

I observe that when I convert the original code into pointer code, the
compiler produces very similar results to the hand version.

Sure, Jim. Arrays are as efficient as pointers. Uh-huh.

Now I know why all my array code has always seemed so slow on Suns.

---Dan