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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] NUMA
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:04:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107171404.46042.dexen.devries@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110717100245.GA2352@polynum.com>

On Sunday 17 July 2011 12:02:45 tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> My woe is more that an optimization can say "this may improve speed (or
> may not, even slow down processing...)": OK. But an optimization
> that can break a program, that is an optimization whose correctness
> is not guaranteed, is something I can't understand why it is even
> proposed (since I fail to see why someone would be happy to have
> more rapidly an incorrect result, that can even not be said to be close
> to the correct one for some epsilon...).


optimizations make it more likely to trip over undefined behavior -- one that
`was-somehow-working' without it.


http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know_14.html
http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know_21.html


--
dexen deVries

> (...) I never use more than 800Mb of RAM. I am running Linux,
> a browser and a terminal.
rjbond3rd in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2692529



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-17 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-15 15:15 tlaronde
2011-07-15 20:21 ` tlaronde
2011-07-15 20:47   ` ron minnich
2011-07-15 22:59     ` Charles Forsyth
2011-07-16  8:02     ` tlaronde
2011-07-16 16:27       ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-16 18:06         ` tlaronde
2011-07-16 19:29           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-16 19:54           ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-16 20:56             ` dexen deVries
2011-07-16 22:10               ` Charles Forsyth
2011-07-17  1:44                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17  7:38                   ` tlaronde
2011-07-17  8:44                     ` Bakul Shah
2011-07-17 10:02                       ` tlaronde
2011-07-17 12:04                         ` dexen deVries [this message]
2011-07-17 15:24                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 15:28                         ` ron minnich
     [not found]                         ` <CAP6exYL2DJXbKfPZ8+D5uL=fRWKEyr8vY2OVc4NTO3wsFo=Unw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-17 15:32                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 17:16                         ` Bakul Shah
2011-07-17 17:21                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 15:51                     ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 16:12                       ` dexen deVries
2011-07-17 16:37                       ` tlaronde
2011-07-17 10:08               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-17 14:50                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 17:01                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-17  3:39       ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-07-17  7:01         ` tlaronde
2011-07-17 15:05           ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-07-17 15:26           ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 15:52             ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com

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