RE: Not Steele

Mark Lacey <mlacey@microsoft.com>
30 Aug 1997 21:35:30 -0400

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Not Steele ncm@cantrip.org (Nathan Myers) (1997-08-28)
RE: Not Steele mlacey@microsoft.com (Mark Lacey) (1997-08-30)
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From: Mark Lacey <mlacey@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 30 Aug 1997 21:35:30 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 97-08-082
Keywords: optimize

In _More Programming Pearls : Confessions of a Coder_, Jon Bentley
attributes:
"[Compiler Writer's Motto - Optimization Pass] Making a wrong
program worse is no sin."
to
Bill McKeeman
Wang Institute


Mark M. Lacey
Visual C++ Compiler Backend Team
mailto:mlacey@microsoft.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Myers [SMTP:ncm@cantrip.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 1997 9:35 PM
> To: COMPIL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
> Subject: Not Steele
>
> I'm looking for the source of the quote:
>
> It's no sin for an optimizer to make a wrong program worse.
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