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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Optimizing
Message-ID: <6083@lanl.gov>
Date: 15 Nov 90 23:19:53 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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From article <8515:Nov1522:16:1490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, by brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein):
> [...]        In the ``array references cannot be made optimal'' thread I
> gave something that might stand for a proof of my assertions. Jim admits
> that I'm right too.

False.  But read the thread yourself.  The are _optimizations_ that
the compiler can't do.  They must, therefore, be expressed by the
human programmer.  Pointers are _not_ inherently superior to
arrays for expressing these improvements.

J. Giles