Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!pop.stat.purdue.edu!hrubin From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Compilers and efficiency Message-ID: <12216@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 11 May 91 15:05:14 GMT References: <9782@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <653@ctycal.UUCP> <28297C23.6984@tct.com> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Lines: 16 In article , rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) writes: > hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: > [much chat about whether Herman's apps are typical elided] > >How much of the driving public uses the low gears of automatic transmissions? > > All of them, Herman. Whenever they accelerate from a stop. That's > what an automatic transmission is for. To clarify, I meant the specific ability to place the transmission in low gears. Current computer hardware can do anything,assuming sufficient external storage, but not efficiently. Similarly with software. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet) {purdue,pur-ee}!l.cc!hrubin(UUCP)