Code quality

drw@zermelo.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:03:14 GMT

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From: drw@zermelo.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Organization: MIT Dept. of Tetrapilotomy, Cambridge, MA, USA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:03:14 GMT
Keywords: optimize, question, comment

How important is generated code quality these days? There are a lot of
good optimization techniques that seem to be adequate for ordinary
programming. But they still are at least 10% or 20% worse than the ideal.
Is there much of a market for another 10% in speed of generated code?


Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
[A few days ago we saw a report about the Tartan Ada compiler which is
supposed to produce better DSP code than humans do. -John]
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