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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Common subexpression optimization
Message-ID: <2115@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Feb 90 11:45:06 GMT
References: <4561@scolex.sco.COM> <14214@lambda.UUCP> <PCG.90Jan29131938@rupert.cs.aber.ac.uk> <2217@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <838.18:06:33@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>
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In-reply-to: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu

In article <838.18:06:33@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd@stealth writes:
>Piercarlo is entirely correct. If you care about ``information hiding''
>and the ``purity'' of your code more than efficiency, you can't expect
>fast code. If you can't bear to put your original code in comments and
>write an efficient version with temporary variables, you don't deserve
>fast code.

This is rubbish, check out the performance of New Jersey ML
(high-level functional language, efficient optimised native code
generation).

>---Dan

		Nick.
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