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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:20:50 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] caveat... optimizer? the `zero and forget' thread on HN
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> Call me crazy, but I always felt compilers were there to emit code that
> reflected what I wrote, not what it thinks it can do a better job writing
> for me.  People complain that Go is not a good systems language due to the
> garbage collector.  Maybe C isn't a good language due to all the places
> where optimizers are allowed to break code.

the vodka is strong, but the meat is rotten.

- erik