Re: optimizing compiler against iaverage assembly programmer.

bromage@cs.mu.oz.au (Andrew Bromage) wrote:
>
> Most programs that I write are not CPU-bound anyway. Either they are
> structure-crunching programs for which main memory is the bottleneck,
> disk-crunching programs for which I/O is the bottleneck, or interactive
> programs where most time is spent waiting for the human even with
> optimisation turned off. ...


I know of one interesting example - AI based game players (e.g. chess,
checkers, go, ...) - CPU intensive due to the searching. Also, as
someone who experiments with these in my spare time, I want the
compiler to generate good code since I change algorithms too often to
engage in hot spot improvements in assembly language.


    Chris


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