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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Code quality
- Reply-To: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:45:43 GMT
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- drw@zermelo.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:
- >Is there much of a market for another 10% in speed of generated code?
-
- To (approximately) quote John Mashey: "there are people who will commit
- unspeakable acts for another ten percent". There is no shortage of
- applications which are hard up against processor speed limits, where a
- modest improvement in code quality can save a lot of people a lot of pain
- trying to squeeze out a bit more performance. "Just switch to a faster
- processor" doesn't work when you've got a large installed base to worry
- about, or you're already using the fastest available, or the CPU box is
- orbiting Jupiter...
-
- A lot of customers don't care about 10%. Some do. Some care a lot.
- Whether there are enough of them to support extensive compiler work
- depends on details of the market you're selling to.
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- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology, henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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