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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Optimizing
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Date: 16 Nov 90 04:26:48 GMT
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In article <11896@life.ai.mit.edu> misha@just-right.ai.mit.edu (Mike Bolotski) writes:

>And by the way, Dan, are we ever going to see a public admission of
>error on the "optimal addition sequence" issue?  Or do you claim
>to be more an authority on the issue than Aho, Sethi, or Ullman?

I think we'll see that about as fast as Dan will admit that his little
alias scheme isn't sufficiently general to catch the more obscure
cases of FORTRAN guaranteed non-aliasing.

That is to say, never.