From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Early Unix function calls: expensive?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:24:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160104042439.GR12305@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07cc4a0aa17d242be5e26bbcd66c1c55.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com>
> I used to tell people that the time required to make a good optimizing C
> compiler grew as the cube of the size of the instruction manual,
So this has nothing to do with Unix but it triggered this memory.
My dad, physics prof, rhodes scholar, told me this when we started
backpacking together:
The population density drops like 1/r^2 the distance from the parking lot.
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2016-01-04 1:31 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-04 2:24 ` scj
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2016-01-04 1:08 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-01-04 1:29 ` Larry McVoy
2016-01-03 23:35 Warren Toomey
2016-01-03 23:53 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-01-04 0:01 ` John Cowan
2016-01-04 4:40 ` Armando Stettner
2016-01-04 8:52 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-01-04 17:29 ` Larry McVoy
2016-01-04 13:50 ` Clem Cole
2016-01-05 2:00 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-05 15:13 ` Clem Cole
2016-01-05 16:46 ` John Cowan
2016-01-05 17:33 ` Diomidis Spinellis
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2016-01-05 18:24 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-05 20:26 ` scj
2016-01-05 20:49 ` John Cowan
2016-01-05 23:24 ` Dave Horsfall
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2016-01-04 0:42 ` scj
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