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- From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
- Subject: Re: Code quality
- Reply-To: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
- Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 07:51:54 GMT
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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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- One way to look at this question is to consider the combined performance
- of the compiler/processor pair as if they were a black box. With some
- plausible estimate of the rate of increase in processor speeds, your 10 -
- 20% speed difference corresponds to getting the black box to market
- something like 2 - 4 months later. It is still a matter of opinion as to
- how much that is worth. Surely it varies across market segments.
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- Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
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