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Subject: Re: [9fans] how to avoid a memset() optimization
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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:24:50 -0500
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| If you are so in hurry for cycles, you'd better wait for
| six months or so and buy the next generation processor.

You want me to wait six months because I'm in a hurry?  :-)

| IMHO, human time is the most expensive resource most of
| the times; so, I'd optimize that instead.

Yes, that's the argument for an optimizing compiler: so that the machine
can quicky do the correctness preserving mechanical improvements instead
of me doing them slowly and wrongly.