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- From: drw@zermelo.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
- Subject: Code quality
- Reply-To: drw@zermelo.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
- Organization: MIT Dept. of Tetrapilotomy, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:03:14 GMT
- Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Message-ID: <93-01-017@comp.compilers>
- Keywords: optimize, question, comment
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- How important is generated code quality these days? There are a lot of
- good optimization techniques that seem to be adequate for ordinary
- programming. But they still are at least 10% or 20% worse than the ideal.
- Is there much of a market for another 10% in speed of generated code?
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- Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
- [A few days ago we saw a report about the Tartan Ada compiler which is
- supposed to produce better DSP code than humans do. -John]
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