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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The advantages of FREQUENCY
Message-ID: <28200100@ccvaxa>
Date: 17 Feb 88 19:26:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Feb 17 13:26:00 1988


>In article <28200095@ccvaxa> aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>|Well, I would like to remove the really infrequent cases completely
>|out of the flow of the program - at the very least to another page,
>|[Lots of code like:]
>|	if( cond )
>|		panic("cond");
>
>This sounds good, but for every such rule there is an exception.  In this
>case, if "cond" is "page handling failure", I do *not* want to go to another
>page.
>
>Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
>Ashton-Tate          52 Oakland Ave North         E. Hartford, CT 06108

Which is why I want manual control over compiler optimizations
from time to time.