Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!taronga!peter From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: credit 'fixing' Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 91 20:19:06 GMT References: Organization: A corner of our bedroom Lines: 15 Approved: on the fly in /usr/spool/news... :-> hughes@bigbang.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Hughes) writes: > Now wait! The first code will (on most compilers) execute much faster, > since there's no division instruction generated. The second code will kick the first one's butt, on any compiler that transforms "mod 8" to "bitwise-and 7". Hack: Writing a TCL script to munge a the new pseudocode standard into something the old-pseudocode-standard processor (written in spaghetti Fortran) can handle, saving mondo man weeks wasted on something that wasn't worth doing in the first place. -- (peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com) `-_-' 'U`