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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] tool (that wnj wrote?) that reduced the data segment size?
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 22:07:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151130030702.GF32175@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV78LS-wQEswOg7GMFcv4vwqtEJj=-z38isNtzJDW1ukhKd=w@mail.gmail.com>

Charles Anthony scripsit:

> "The Optimizing Compiler Writer's Motto: It is no sin to make a wrong
> program worse."

It is if the rules for which programs are wrong are essentially beyond
human comprehension on the fly.  Anyway: "That program has about a
thousand bugs.  Which would you rather, that we fixed all the bugs or
that we made it run a thousand times faster?"

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
Heckler: "Go on, Al, tell 'em all you know.  It won't take long."
Al Smith: "I'll tell 'em all we *both* know.  It won't take any longer."



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-30  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-28 23:30 Norman Wilson
2015-11-28 23:38 ` Charles Anthony
2015-11-30  3:07   ` John Cowan [this message]
2015-11-30  5:38     ` Nick Downing
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-11-28 14:58 Doug McIlroy
2015-11-27 22:26 Larry McVoy
2015-11-27 23:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-11-28  0:03   ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-30  2:45     ` Erik E. Fair

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