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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Aggressive optimization
Message-ID: <6735:Nov720:38:4890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 90 20:38:48 GMT
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In article <1990Nov6.224410.15068@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
> In article <2133:Nov607:16:1090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> >I observe that when I convert the original code into pointer code, the
> >compiler produces very similar results to the hand version.
> Maybe you should have tried gcc -- it does quite a bit better than cc
> on this simple exaple, *which includes no alias possibilties*.

Weird, you're right. gcc does a lot better on array code. Sun, would you
please make the obvious additions to your optimizer?

---Dan