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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Compilers and efficiency
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Date: 16 May 91 16:35:19 GMT
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<Ross Alexander says:
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<   [quoting Herman Rubin]
<   >To clarify, I meant the specific ability to place the transmission in low gears.
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<   But the auto transmission knows when to do that for you.  

This is probably a lousy way to try to shoot down this analogy.
It is fairly common knowledge that manual transmissions get significantly
better fuel economy than manual transmissions.  Therefore, when fuel performance
is important, manual control is also very important.   :)