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From: morrison@cg-atla.UUCP (Steve Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Dynamic frequency analysis (was Register usage)
Summary: A good heuristic for estimating frequency of use is a Good Thing.
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Date: 23 May 89 13:13:43 GMT
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In article <966@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:


Well, I may be sentimental, but I still prefer "register" and my own
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judgment.
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One motto was stressed over and over again in a course I took on
Software Enginerring back in the seventies: "The goal of Software
Engineering isn't to make good programmers better, it's to make
average programmers as productive as the best."