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From: gary@fairlight.oz (Gary Evesson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Code Optimization
Message-ID: <313@fairlight.oz>
Date: 27 Jan 88 00:52:22 GMT
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Reply-To: gary@fairlight.oz (Gary Evesson)
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Summary: a good idea.

This is an idea that I thought about in the early days of the Mac. I think it's
a good idea, but convincing someone to do it is another question. Writing
optimisers is a art in itself - not an easy thing to do. It doesn't seem that
any of the manufacturers of compilers for these machines are interested
(I would welcome a contradiction from anyone) as far as I can tell. I guess the
trick is to apply enough market pressure for them to do something about the
quality of their code, which I agree is atrocious.

							gary@fairlight.oz
							Gary Evesson