Re: High Level Language vs Assembly

francis.doyle@donovandata.com wrote:
: Hi,
: When I took a compiler class in Grad School, my professor was
: adamant about the efficiency of code produced by new high level
: language compilers. He stated that a human assembly language writer
: was no longer able to compete with these compilers (unless, of course
: you consider something like Microsoft VB...Ha Ha). His arguments were
: convincing, but
[...]


Given sufficient time, a compiler and/or a human can find the
"optimum" program, per some physical resource constraints -- there
are, after all, only finitely many possibilities. One of my friends
points out that a human can always (at least) tie a compiler by
waiting for and trying to improve upon its output. But, of course,
that presumes that humans outlives compiler and the machines upon
which they run.


Tom Payne

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