Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Array indexing vs. pointers...
Message-ID: <1988Oct9.033134.15553@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <225800077@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1988Oct5.161523.6695@utzoo.uucp> <8646@smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 88 03:31:34 GMT

In article <8646@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>>As Knuth once said, approximately, "in no other branch of engineering is an
>>easily-obtained 10% improvement in performance viewed with scorn".
>
>That isn't even a correct obervation, let alone relevant.

While I'm not really in Knuth's camp on this general issue, I think I must
defend his comment.  There really are people -- too many of them -- who
consider a 10% performance improvement to be so insignificant that it's
not a valid argument in a debate.  These are generally people who have
never done performance-critical programming.
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