On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 1:00 AM, Robin Vowels <[email protected]> wrote:
From: "Keith Moe" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:08 AM >> Keith Moe wrote: >> One of the downsides to such great optimization >> is the added difficulty in debugging. > Robin Vowels wrote: > Such optimisations are rarely requested > during debugging, when all the facilities of the > compiler - such as subscript bounds checking,> check for uninitialized > variables, etc, are employed. Keith is talking about dump analysis. Think of optimization as a chaotic programmer. The stronger the optimization, the more chaos. The best optimization will often make following the machine logic very difficult. Regards, Jon.
