From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87u1s5uo0d.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: , <3C7A7A59.5A56712F@strakt.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:26:34 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 560ec9a4-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 boyd@strakt.com (Boyd Roberts) writes: > "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote: > > I believe the MIPS compiler is still superior, ... > > The story I heard is that it had _twenty five thousand lines_ of code > to do instruction re-ordering [to fill delay slots etc]. > > What a waste. Yes, but actually really quite good at compiling! Speed is really important, of course, but it's usually thought that this is the reason why we want optimizing compilers.