Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!swatsun!swatsun!gessel From: gessel@carthage.cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Optimizing Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 21:44:57 GMT Sender: news@cs.swarthmore.edu Distribution: comp.lang.misc Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Pa. Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: carthage Along the lines of optimization and pointerfull/pointerless languages, any one know much about languages which take suggestions for compilation (like many lisps), or compilers which automatically use profiling to improve optimization? How much of a bitch are these kinds of things? How useful are they? This kind of thing could allow both camps to be satisfied, (I would think), in that there would be a very portable abstract specification (program in a high level language), but also allow bit-twiddlers to twiddle (if implemented "right"). -- Daniel Mark Gessel Independent Software Consultant Internet: gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu Opinions expressed by me are not necessarily those of Swarthmore College.