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- From: grover@brahmand.Eng.Sun.COM (Vinod Grover)
- Subject: Re: Code quality
- Reply-To: grover@brahmand.Eng.Sun.COM (Vinod Grover)
- Organization: Sun
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:16:16 GMT
- Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Message-ID: <93-01-033@comp.compilers>
- Keywords: optimize, performance
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- drw@zermelo.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:
- >How important is generated code quality these days? ...
- >Is there much of a market for another 10% in speed of generated code?
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- Code quality isnt always speed. In embedded systems, code size is equally
- and sometimes even more important. In these systems requirements are often
- formulated in terms of the fraction of memory an application is allowed to
- use. 10% can make a big difference.
-
- Vinod Grover
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