Re: Unsafe Optimizations (formerly Compiler Design in C...)

According to pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel):
>[Two versions of strcpy() deleted]
>A moment's consideration should (hopefully) convince you that the
>first form requires two increments per iteration, while the latter
>requires only one.


But a moment's consideration convinced me that the first form requires
two array indexing operations, while the the latter requires none.


And besides, completely *safe* optimizations can transform either form
into the other. So there. :-)


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