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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Aggressive optimization
Message-ID: <6850:Nov620:39:1390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 20:39:13 GMT
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In article <2213@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
> You've found what, maybe one bug per
> compiler?

And the bugs keep coming, and coming, and coming, and coming ...

I think we've successfully reduced this argument to a simple question:
``Do optimizers gain more speed than they lose reliability?'' Again, I'm
firmly convinced that heavy optimizations are on the latter side. It's
pretty clear that you are on the former side. In any case I think the
argument is finished.

---Dan