Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Array indexing vs. pointers... Message-ID: <1988Oct5.161523.6695@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <225800077@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 88 16:15:23 GMT In article <225800077@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >>... I have yet to see more than a >>20-25% improvment (even over BAD code.) As Knuth once said, approximately, "in no other branch of engineering is an easily-obtained 10% improvement in performance viewed with scorn". -- The meek can have the Earth; | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology the rest of us have other plans.|uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu