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From: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: code optimizers
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Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 11:52:00 EDT
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>>Is there a significant interest market for an external optimizer for
>>the Macintosh/Macintosh II?
>
>The best way to do it is to write an optimizer that works directly
>on code resources in compiled Macintosh applications.  That way,
>you could take any standard Mac application, and optimize it.

While this sounds good on the surface, I'd have to have a lot of faith
in an optimizer to do this, because the resultant application would have
had NO TESTING.  I'd much rather the optimization were done by the
developers, so that the optimized code would be tested (except for 
Microsoft, since they don't seem to do any testing :-)).
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