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Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Small is Beautiful (was Re: Free Software Foundation)
Message-ID: <422@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 08:03:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  2 08:03:29 1987
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in article <2640@ames.arpa>, fouts@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Marty Fouts) says:
> 1) Faster code.  By taking the time to come up with a compact ...
> 2) Easier to understand code.  This is only true if you try for...
> 3) More useful code.  The more people who can use your code, the
>    better off you are.

The other caveat has to do with not completely confuting the
optimization of the compiler.  As we get further away from von Neumann
architectures, the compiler will become more important as a tool past
the "save me from the detail" genre.  Now one doesn't know where or how
invocation proceeds.

Comments and/or proposals?

-- 
Steve Stevenson                            fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
(aka D. E. Stevenson),                     fpst@clemson.csnet
Department of Computer Science,            comp.hypercube
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell