Re: Folk Theorem: Assemblers are superior to Compilers

macrakis@osf.org (Stavros Macrakis) writes:
>The main reason code is big and slow is that there is little pressure to
>make it small and fast. There is much more pressure to add new features,
>to support more device types, and to do that as soon as possible...


I have some vague hope that (when it comes to compilers) we may perhaps
not be getting the absolute best code generation we can for the simple
reason that responsible compiler vendors are doing their level best to
work on the *correctness* of their compilers first, and placing a somewhat
lower priority of all of the whiz-bang optimizations that we all know and
love.


(Who was it that said that you can compute incorrect results infinitely
fast?)
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