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- From: polstra!jdp@uunet.UU.NET (John Polstra)
- Subject: Re: Code quality
- Reply-To: polstra!jdp@uunet.UU.NET (John Polstra)
- Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc., Seattle, WA
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:29:53 GMT
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- Keywords: optimize
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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?
-
- For a number of years I have been doing consulting work for the compiler
- department of a large company that manufactures office-scale Unix systems
- with bundled compilers. Run time performance of the compiled code is
- *all* they care about. Their marketing people say that the price they can
- get for a system directly depends on the SPEC rating the system can
- attain. They literally have a formula that they use to calculate the
- system price from the SPEC rating. Furthermore, for every additional 1%
- of object code speed improvement that we might squeeze out of the
- compiler, the marketing people can estimate how many additional millions
- of dollars of revenue the product will produce for the company.
-
- On the other hand, they couldn't care less about speed of compilation.
- This is a complete reversal of the attitude that prevailed there a few
- years ago.
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