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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:13:14 +0000
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rob@plan9.bell-labs.com (rob pike) writes:

> Ten percent buys you, what, a couple of weeks of Moore's Law?  I'm not
> against fast compilers - I'm actually rather impressed by good
> compilers - but I do fret about optimizing compilers breaking my code.

Oh, of course, but that's a matter of writing correct code.

Your concern reminds me of people who are scared of garbage collection
because they think it will have a bug and free live memory.