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From: conybear@moncsbruce.oz (Roland Conybeare)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Compiler efficiency
Message-ID: <329@moncsbruce.oz>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 21:08:54 EST
Article-I.D.: moncsbru.329
Posted: Tue Nov  3 21:08:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 09:36:56 EST
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Organization: Comp Sci, Monash Uni, Australia
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Summary: Compiler efficiency considered harmful. (apologies to Djikstra).


	I have a Mac 512ke.  I can fit one project per disk without too much
hassle, but I usually end up with well under 100k of disk space left.  If
an optimising compiler uses up more disk space,  I will have to stick with
the older, unoptimisting version I already have.
	Most of my projects spend far more time in development than in use.  The
savings from optimising appear modest at this stage.  They are of little 
value *to me* (in other words I find other improvements of more pressing
importance).
	Let me propose an alternative that would alleviate the burden of
optimisation by hand.  If rumours of a symbolic debugger are correct,
perhaps we could have a command to take selected program source which has
already been compiled, and append the compiled assembler code.  This would
provide a base for hand optimisation.

Roland Conybeare
(conybear@moncsbruce.oz)