I think the technique in use at the time was referred to as "cheating" ;^)
-Alex
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
The closest I'm going to get to retirement is when I put new Michelins
on my car!
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> It is virtually impossible with any kind of optimizing turned on to write a
> C code program with a loop like this.
> unsigned long
> loop(unsigned long iterations) {
> unsigned long i;
> for (i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
> ;
> return(i);
> }
> Most compilers (gcc, DECC, HP C, Sun) will convert this code to:
> return iterations;
>
> On 2 May 2002 at 9:40, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
>
> > Imagine if the OS were smart enough to recognize that you were copying to
> > /dev/null and would simply optimize that operation out of existence! Now *that*
> > would be fast.
> >
> > Years ago 'C' compiler writers noticed that folks were attempting to benchmark
> > the program that came out of their compiler by running a program called the
> > "Sieve of Erastophanes". These bright compiler writers would look for the code
> > pattern and simply throw away the code replacing it with a table print out!
> > Needless to say their compiler would look great compared to one that actually
> > did the work. Similar games were played in the video card space...
> >
> > -Alex
> >
> >
> > Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
> >
> > "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
> > said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
> >
> > The closest I'm going to get to retirement is when I put new Michelins
> > on my car!
> >
> >
> >
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