Re: Unsafe Optimizations (WAS: Compiler Design in C How about it?)

pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Tue, 5 Jun 90 17:33:32 GMT

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From: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
References: <1990Jun4.044255.14857@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1990Jun1.194941.5781@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1990Jun4.212226.18389@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 90 17:33:32 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
Keywords: optimize

larus@spool.cs.wisc.edu writes:
>[Some programmers are willing to throw away some of
> their sequential semantics in order to get processing power.]


In which case you're no longer compiling the same language. The point
that I would like to make is that such things are *language extensions*
and not *compiler optimizations*.


;-D on ( Language retractions? ) Pardo
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